The story is set in an english town called pagford, which is depicted as a peaceful and idyllic place. However, things are not as they seem, and there exists a curtain of façade behind the picture of prettiness. The serenity gets upended when the town's parish councillor barry fairbrother dies. The situation gets complicated and tensions develop as a result of the vacancy of his seat at the council. Things start to get ugly, with the development of factions, and the mudslinging and blame game that ensues. Everyone seems to be at war with everyone else: rich against poor, wives against husbands, and children against parents, with barry's vacant council seat acting as the biggest point of conflict.

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Personen: Rowling, J. K.

Schlagwörter: Englische Literatur Intrigen

Interessenkreis: Englisch Fremdsprachig