Appendix The Of Detective Story In The Cuckoo’s Calling By Robert Galbraith

APPENDICES
A. The Biography of J.K Rowling or Robert Galbraith

Although she writes under the pen name "J. K. Rowling" (pronounced
rolling), the author's name when her first Harry Potter book was published was
simply "Joanne Rowling". Anticipating that the target audience of young boys
might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers asked that she
use two initials, rather than her full name. As she had no middle name, she chose
K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother. She calls
herself "Jo" and has said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young,
unless they were angry .Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name
Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. During the Leveson Inquiry
she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling. In a 2012

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interview, Rowling noted that she no longer cared that people pronounced her
name incorrectly.

Birth and family

Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft
engineer,

and Anne Rowling (née Volant), on 31 July 1965 in Yate,

Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. Her mother Anne
was half-French and half-Scottish. Her parents first met on a train departing from
King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. They married on 14 March
1965. Her mother's maternal grandfather, Dugald Campbell, was born in Lamlash
on the Isle of Arran. Her mother's paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was
awarded the Croix de Guerre for exceptional bravery in defending the village of
Courcelles-le-Comte during the First World War. Rowling originally believed he
had won the Légion d'honneur, as she said when she received it herself in 2009;
she later discovered the truth when featuring in an episode of the UK genealogy
series Who Do You Think You Are?

Childhood and education

Rowling's sister Dianne was born at their home when Rowling was 23

months old. The family moved to the nearby village Winterbourne when Rowling
was four. She attended St Michael's Primary School, a school founded by
abolitionist William Wilberforce and education reformer Hannah More. Her

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headmaster at St Michael's, Alfred Dunn, has been suggested as the inspiration for
the Harry Potter headmaster Albus Dumbledore.

As a child, Rowling often wrote fantasy stories, which she would usually
then read to her sister. She recalls that "I can still remember me telling her a story
in which she fell down a rabbit hole and was fed strawberries by the rabbit family
inside it. Certainly the first story I ever wrote down (when I was five or six) was
about a rabbit called Rabbit. He got the measles and was visited by his friends,
including a giant bee called Miss Bee. At the age of nine, Rowling moved to
Church Cottage in the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill, close to Chepstow,
Wales. When she was a young teenager, her great aunt, who Rowling said "taught
classics and approved of a thirst for knowledge, even of a questionable kind",
gave her a very old copy of Jessica Mitford's autobiography, Hons and Rebels

Mitford became Rowling's heroine, and Rowling subsequently read all of her
books.

Rowling has said of her teenage years, in an interview with The New
Yorker, "I wasn't particularly happy. I think it's a dreadful time of life." She had a
difficult homelife; her mother was ill and she had a difficult relationship with her
father (she is no longer on speaking terms with him). She attended secondary
school at Wyedean School and College, where her mother had worked as a
technician in the science department. Rowling said of her adolescence, "Hermione
[a bookish, know-it-all Harry Potter character] is loosely based on me. She's a
caricature of me when I was eleven, which I'm not particularly proud of." Steve

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Eddy, who taught Rowling English when she first arrived, remembers her as "not
exceptional" but "one of a group of girls who were bright, and quite good at
English". Sean Harris, her best friend in the Upper Sixth owned a turquoise Ford
Anglia, which she says inspired a flying version that appeared in Harry Potter and
the Chamber of Secrets. "Ron Weasley [Harry Potter's best friend] isn't a living

portrait of Sean, but he really is very Sean-ish. Of her musical tastes of the time,
she said "My favourite group in the world is The Smiths. And when I was going
through a punky phase, it was The Clash." Rowling studied A Levels in English,
French and German, achieving two A's and a B and was Head Girl.

In 1982, Rowling took the entrance exams for Oxford University but was
not accepted and read for a BA in French and Classics at the University of Exeter,
which she says was a "bit of a shock" as she "was expecting to be amongst lots of
similar people – thinking radical thoughts". Once she made friends with "some
like-minded people" she says she began to enjoy herself. Of her time at Exeter,
Martin Sorrell, then a professor of French at the university, recalled "a quietly
competent student, with a denim jacket and dark hair, who, in academic terms,
gave the appearance of doing what was necessary". Although her own memory is
of "doing no work whatsoever" and instead she "wore heavy eyeliner, listened to
the Smiths, and read Dickens and Tolkien". After a year of study in Paris,
Rowling graduated from Exeter in 1986and moved to London to work as a
researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International. In 1988, Rowling
wrote a short-essay about her time studying Classics entitled "What was the Name

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of that Nymph Again? or Greek and Roman Studies Recalled", it was published
by the University of Exeter's journal Pegasus.

Inspiration and mother's death

After working at Amnesty International in London, Rowling and her then
boyfriend decided to move to Manchester. In 1990, while she was on a four-hourdelayed train trip from Manchester to London, the idea for a story of a young boy
attending a school of wizardry "came fully formed" into her mind. She told The
Boston Globe that "I really don't know where the idea came from. It started with
Harry, then all these characters and situations came flooding into my head.

I was travelling back to London on my own on a crowded train, and the
idea for Harry Potter simply fell into my head. I had been writing almost
continuously since the age of six but I had never been so excited about an idea
before. To my immense frustration, I didn't have a pen that worked, and I was too
shy to ask anybody if I could borrow one… I did not have a functioning pen with
me, but I do think that this was probably a good thing. I simply sat and thought,
for four (delayed train) hours, while all the details bubbled up in my brain, and

this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who didn't know he was a wizard
became more and more real to me. Perhaps, if I had slowed down the ideas to
capture them on paper, I might have stifled some of them (although sometimes I
do wonder, idly, how much of what I imagined on that journey I had forgotten by
the time I actually got my hands on a pen). I began to write 'Philosopher's Stone'

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that very evening, although those first few pages bear no resemblance to anything
in the finished book.

When she had reached her Clapham Junction flat, she began to write
immediately. In December of that year, Rowling's mother died, after ten years
suffering from multiple sclerosis. Rowling commented, "I was writing Harry
Potter at the moment my mother died. I had never told her about Harry Potter."
Rowling said this death heavily affected her writingand that she introduced much
more detail about Harry's loss in the first book, because she knew about how it
felt.

Marriage, divorce and single parenthood

An advert in The Guardian led Rowling to move to Porto in Portugal to
teach English as a foreign language. She taught at night, and began writing in the
day while listening to Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto. While there she met
Portuguese television journalist Jorge Arantes in a bar, after sharing a mutual
interest in Jane Austen. They married on 16 October 1992 and their child, Jessica
Isabel Rowling Arantes (named after Jessica Mitford), was born on 27 July 1993
in Portugal. Rowling had previously suffered a miscarriage. They separated on 17
November 1993, 13 months and one day after their marriage. Biographers have
suggested that Rowling suffered domestic abuse during her marriage, although the
full extent is unknown. In an interview with The Daily Express, Arantes said on
their final night together he had dragged her out of their home at five in the
morning and slapped her hard. In December 1993, Rowling and her daughter

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moved to be near Rowling's sister in Edinburgh, Scotland, with three chapters of
Harry Potter in her suitcase.

Seven years after graduating from university, Rowling saw herself as "the
biggest failure I knew".Her marriage had failed, she was jobless with a dependent
child, but she described her failure as liberating:

Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to
myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my
energy to finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at
anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one
area where I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been
realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had
an old typewriter, and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation
on which I rebuilt my life J. K. Rowling, "The fringe benefits of failure", 2008.

During this period Rowling was diagnosed with clinical depression, and
contemplated suicide. It was the feeling of her illness which brought her the idea
of Dementors, soul-sucking creatures introduced in the third book. Rowling
signed up for welfare benefits, describing her economic status as being "poor as it
is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless".

Rowling was left in "despair" after her estranged husband arrived in Scotland,
seeking both her and her daughter. She obtained an order of restraint and Arantes
returned to Portugal, with Rowling filing for divorce in August 1994. She began a

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teacher training course in August 1995 at the Moray House School of Education,
at Edinburgh University, after completing her first novel while having survived on
state benefits. She wrote in many cafés, especially Nicolson's Café, and The
Elephant House, (the former owned by her brother-in-law Roger Moore) wherever
she could get Jessica to fall asleep. In a 2001 BBC interview, Rowling denied the
rumour that she wrote in local cafés to escape from her unheated flat, remarking,
"I am not stupid enough to rent an unheated flat in Edinburgh in midwinter. It had
heating." Instead, as she stated on the American TV programme A&E Biography,
one of the reasons she wrote in cafés was because taking her baby out for a walk
was the best way to make her fall asleep.

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B. The Summary of the Novel

After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is
barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and
creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend
and is living in his office.

Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His
sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the
Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a
suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the
world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate
designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement,
seduction, and delusion known to man.

Cormorant Strike, 35 years old, hairy, fat, have a 1.5 foot amputated
because the other half due to injuries while serving in the military, former
military members who have legs amputated return to London and opened a
business so the private detective. Robin was happy because 've just spoken for

her boyfriend, Matthew. plus he got a job as a temporary secretary in the
office Cormoran. The spirit that has always kept that he was interested in
detective make this work looks very promising. However Cormoran is in a
critical stage. She had just broken up with his girlfriend, Charlotte , and was
forced to stay in office because baseball had a home. Plus he's got a lot of debt
ddan baseball have money. And he forgot that this day would come temporary

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employees. In the midst of the chaos of his life, Comoran get clients, John
Bristow. John is the brother of Lula Landry, a supermodel who died of alleged
suicide jumping from the window of her flat. But John believes Lula was
killed and he pays Cormoran to investigate this murder, assisted Robin,
Cormoran was involved adventure Lula's disassemble killer and how to
overcome financial problems.

This story stems from the tragic death of a famous model, Lula Landry
who slammed his body fell onto the streets of Mayfair in London from the top
of the snowy top floor balcony 3rd floor apartment she shares. There are
millions of reasons that make the whole world believe that a girl with a mental
disorder bipolar drug addict at the same time it has put an end to his own life
without interference from others. But John Bristow, lift the victim's brother
who is very loving and protective of her sister Lula believes that too sane to
attempt suicide at the peak of a brilliant career. He may be able to accept the
death of her sister, but can not believe that no one is responsible for the
incident. Nothing whatever he wanted, except justice.

With a bit of sense, John met an old acquaintance, a former military
police special investigation branch who had received awards and current
career as a private investigator, Cormoran Strike. Strike, without John know
(although he has investigated in depth the background of life Strike) is a mid30s man who failed in love, deeply in debt to nearly bankrupt, and has almost
no potential clients can be a source of income for the sustainability of the

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