Rowling Jokes About ‘Fifty Shades’ While Promoting New ‘Adult’ Novel ‘The Casual Vacancy’

NEW YORK- While promoting her new novel “The Casual Vacancy”, Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling finds it amusing that the erotic trilogy “Fifty Shades of Grey” is the most famous “adult” fiction right now. However, Rowling does clarify that there is a big difference between “Fifty Shades” and her new novel.

“The difference should be, people have sex in this book but no one really enjoys it,” she said of her own boook at a reading in New York on Tuesday night.

Rowling, noting that she doesn’t want readers confused into thinking that she has moved from the magical world of Hogwarts to something more like E.L. James’ erotica style of writing, prefers to call her latest work “a novel for grown-ups”.

According to NBC News, Rowling’s new novel, “The Casual Vacancy”, takes place in in a small English town where class prejudices are played out and “grown-up” topics such as teenage sex, drug addiction and domestic abuse are addressed.

Even though “The Casual Vacancy” had mixed reviews since its release in September, the novel has already hit the top of bestseller lists across the world.

When asked at the reading on Tuesday, How young is too young for fans wanting to read her new novel?, Rowling replied:

“I personally would be comfortable with the right 14- or 15-year-old reading this book,” but she highly discouraged those that are younger than that age range.

Rowling recalled a recent reading in London when a 9-year-old boy was present, and she tried numerous times to warn the audience that it was a “grown-up” book before reading a particular passage of the novel.

“The f-word occurred roughly every two sentences,” she said at the New York reading, which generated laughs from the audience.