The Cuckoo's Calling

Robert Galbraith is the pen name for J. K. Rowling, the author of the famous Harry Potter series. She was born in 1965 in Bristol, England. Rowling’s early adult life contained significant hardship, including the loss of her mother at a young age, the divorce of her first husband, and the birth of her youngest daughter that culminated in her living in near poverty. She wrote the first of seven Harry Potter novels (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone) while training and working as a teacher and published it in 1997. In addition to the Harry Potter and Cormoran Strike series, Rowling has published one adult fiction novel titled Casual Vacancy.

After the success of the Harry Potter series, Rowling created a pen name because she wanted to distance herself from her famous name and even claimed that Galbraith was part of the military to avoid authorial photographs. There are also significant dissimilarities between the Harry Potter series and the characters, plot, genre, and setting for The Cuckoo’s Calling. Considering The Cuckoo’s Calling and its perspective on fame, J. K. Rowling’s use of a

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