The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling

What awful characters, not one among them you can sympathise with and like. This is an incestuous tale of a sordid little village and the ugly spirited people who live there, all brawling and conniving over a vacancy on the local council and the consequent vote in the removal from their jurisdiction of a low class housing estate. Rowling writes in an easy flow but I’m not sure this story was worth the effort.