How long does it take to read The Casual Vacancy?
J. K. Rowling, Tom Hollander
The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling, Tom Hollander takes about 9 hours 23 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 23 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2012. 512 pages, about 140,800 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 39 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 23 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 52 minutes |
The page count is the median across 35 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When Barry Fairbrother 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 town’s council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations? Blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling’s first novel for adults.
Subjects: fiction, Elecciones locales, City council members, Death, Novela, Local elections
