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Rowling Unleashed- A review of The Casual Vacancy by J.K.Rowling

J.K.Rowling’s first foray into adult literature is certainly not for the faint-hearted. Freed from the shackles that have bound her to children’s literature, it is almost as if she is going out of her way to be shocking. The worst of life is here in graphic detail: bullying, self-harming, domestic violence, heroin addiction and under-age rape. It is not an easy book to read, on many levels. It involves many different characters and different families and right from the start I had to keep checking back...

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