J.K. Rowling's next book will be for the grown-ups.

The Harry Potter universe is, for now, concluded.  No more new movies, no more new books, just Pottermore and the Wizarding World of Harry Potter to concentrate your love on… until now.  The mind behind the Harry Potter world, JK Rowling, has written her first post-Potter novel, and the details are finally starting to come out.  JK Rowling has penned The Casual Vacancy, and it is due out September 27.

Here’s a plot synopsis from publishers Little, Brown:  “When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock . Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war.  Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils…Pagford is not what it first seems.  And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen.”

JK Rowling writing a book for adults makes sense, given the age of the average Harry Potter fan.  The plot details are pretty vague, but not uninteresting.  I’m not the type to camp out for a book, so that’s not happening, but when it finally hits paperback I’ll probably check it out.

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