For any of you who don’t know (aka, for anyone who’s been living under a rock since this morning), the world was given great news today. And no, I’m not talking about The Jersey Shore being cancelled (oh, if only).

I’m talking about the greatest thing to happen to us since J.K. Rowling last graced us with her ingenious series Harry Potter. A release date and title has finally been given for her newest adult novel that she promises will have no magic in it whatsoever. Tear.

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So here’s the lowdown –
Title: The Casual Vacancy
Release date: September 27, 2012
Synopsis (courtesy of Little, Brown Book Group): When Barry Fairweather 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 parish 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.

Are you as excited as I am? You better be!