Pleasure reading. "The casual vacancy" Part 1

The novel " The casual vacancy" is divided into 7 parts. Each part of the novel is called due to the the days of a week.This novel begins with the death of Barry Fairbrother. Walking into the restaurant with his wife, he falls to the ground and has a fatal aneurysm.

       The novel takes place in a small English town called Pagford. After the scene of Barry's death, the first chapter flits around briefly introducing characters and their reaction to the news of his death.

      Miles calls his dad Howard to tell him about Barry dying from something to do within brain. Simon and Ruth are talking about Barry's death Sunday morning. Simon is mean to Otis his son calling him pizza face due to his acne. Their other son Andrew is caught smoking in the shed. Ruth is a nurse at the hospital where Barry was taken. Andrew is in high school and loves watching a new girl named Gaia get on the school bus. He's waiting for her to get on the bus but she does not come.

     Gavin is dating Kay, whom he does not like very much. Kay and her daughter Gaia moved to Pagfrod at no promoting of Gavin. Gavin gets a phone call and finds out that Barry has died and is devastated, realizing it was his best friend.

     Fats and Andrew are at school at assembly on Monday morning. Cubby, Fat's dads, is a principal and he announces that Barry Fairbrother has died. A girl laughs and is sent to the office.Gaia walks in late and takes a seat next to Andrew. He gets the courage up to turn and smile at her. She smiles back.

    Howard opens his deli and tells his business partner, Maureen, about Barry's death. He explains that his death has caused a casual vacany in the local Pagfrod government.

    Krystal is sent to Tessa Wall, the guidance counselor or Fat's mother and Cubby's wife. Krystal insists that she had not been laughing at assembly but was genuinely upset and distraught. Krystal is a trouble teenager who acts as if she has nothing to lose. Her only adult connection is to Tessa and Barry Fairbrother, who was her rowing coach.