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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099450252

  • Length: 288  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 250g

  • RRP: £8.99

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

OVER TEN MILLION COPIES SOLD

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other.

The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's Syndrome. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched. He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when he finds a neighbour's dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his whole world upside down.

'Outstanding...a stunningly good read' Observer

'Mark Haddon's portrayal of an emotionally dissociated mind is a superb achievement... Wise and bleakly funny' Ian McEwan

Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year

**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099450252

  • Length: 288  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 250g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • Wondrous...brilliantly inventive...dazzling. Not simply the most original novel I've read in years - it's also one of the best

    The Times

  • Exceptional by any standards. Both funny and deeply moving

    Sunday Telegraph

  • Outstanding. Heartening as well as richly entertaining. A stunningly good read

    Independent

  • Superbly realised. A funny as well as a sad book. Brilliant

    Guardian

  • A remarkable book. An impressive achievement and a rewarding read

    Time Out

  • A magical book. It's one of those books that makes you feel as though you have been on an emotional rollercoaster.

    Carrie Grant, Sunday Express

  • Brilliantly empathetic. Believe the hype: a brilliant, heart-warming book

    Scotsman

  • In telling a painful story in the voice of a 15-year-old boy with Asperger's, Haddon broadens ordinary minds and helps to understand how they work, too.

    Daily Telegraph

  • Mark Haddon's portrayal of an emotionally dissociated mind is a superb achievement. He is a wise and bleakly funny writer with rare gifts of empathy

    Ian McEwan

  • I have never read anything quite like Mark Haddon's funny and agonizingly honest book, or encountered a narrator more vivid and memorable. I advise you to buy two copies; you won't want to lend yours out

    Arthur Golden, author of 'Memoirs of a Geisha'

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About the Author

Mark Haddon

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. His most recent novel, The Red House, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2012. 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).

Mark Haddon

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