Mark Haddon's bestselling and multi-award-winning debut novel - one of the most talked-about books of the last decade.
Mark Haddon is a writer and artist. His bestselling novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, was published simultaneously by Jonathan Cape and David Fickling in 2003. It won seventeen literary prizes, including the Whitbread Award. In 2012, a stage adaptation by Simon Stephens was produced by the National Theatre and went on to win 7 Olivier Awards in 2013 and the 2015 Tony Award for Best Play. In 2005 his poetry collection, The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea, was published by Picador, and his play, Polar Bears, was produced by the Donmar Warehouse in 2010. The Pier Falls, a collection of short stories, was also published by Cape in 2016. To commemorate the centenary of the Hogarth Press he wrote and illustrated a short story that appeared alongside Virginia Woolf's first story for the press in Two Stories (Hogarth, 2017). His most recent novel, The Porpoise, was published by Chatto & Windus in 2019.
Haddon is to be congratulated for imagining a new kind of hero, for
the humbling instruction this warm and often funny novel offers and
for showing that the best lives are lived where difference is
cherished
*Daily Telegraph*
The clash between Christopher's view of the world and the way it
looks to the rest of us makes this an extraordinarily moving, often
blackly funny read. It is hard to think of anyone who would not be
moved and delighted by this book, so the decision to publish it
simultaneously for older children and adults is certainly
well-founded
*Financial Times*
Brilliantly inventive, full of dazzling set-pieces, unbearably sad,
yet also skilfully dodging any encounters with sentimentality, this
isn't simply the most original novel I've read in years . . . It's
also one of the best
*The Times*
A stroke of genius, as the advantages of having a naive,
literal-minded boy in the driving seat are manifold . . . We do
learn what it might feel like to have Asperger's Syndrome
*TES*
The book gave me that rare, greedy feeling of: this is so good I
want to read it all at once but I mustn't or it will be over too
soon
*Observer*
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