The Casual Vacancy

Characters:

• Fairbrother, Barry and Mary, Fergus, Declan, Siobhan, Niamh
• Mollison, Miles and Samantha, Lexie, Libby
• Mollison, Howard and Shirley, (Miles, Patricia)
• Lowe Maureen (Mo)
• Price, Simon and Ruth, Andrew (Arf), Paul
• Wall, Colin (Cubby), and Tessa, Stuart (Fats)
• Jawanda, Vikram and Parminder (Minda), Jaswant (Jazzy), Sukhvinder (Jolly, TNT), Rajpal
• Bawden, Kay, Gaia
• Hughes, Gavin
• Weedon, Terri, Krystal, Robbie
• Tully, Dane
• Cooper, Kevin
• Fawley, Aubrey and Julia

Part One

Monday

II

'He worries about you, Andrew. About your health.'
Like fuck he does, the cunt.
Inside his head, Andrew matched Simon obscenity for obscenity. Inside his head, he could take Simon in a fair fight.

(Olden Days)

Tuesday

III

The mistake ninety-nine per cent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else. Honesty was Fat's currency, his weapon and defense.