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The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time Mark Haddon

The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time By Mark Haddon

The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time by Mark Haddon


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Summary

Christopher is 15 and has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. He is obsessed with maths, science and Sherlock Holmes, but finds it hard to understand other people. When he finds a dead dog on a neighbour's lawn he decides to solve the mystery and write a detective thriller about it.

The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time Summary

The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Christopher is 15 and lives in Swindon with his father. He has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. He is obsessed with maths, science and Sherlock Holmes but finds it hard to understand other people. When he discovers a dead dog on a neighbour's lawn he decides to solve the mystery and write a detective thriller about it. As in all good detective stories, however, the more he unearths, the deeper the mystery gets - for both Christopher and the rest of his family.

About Mark Haddon

Mark Haddon is an author, illustrator and screenwriter who has written fifteen books for children and won two BAFTAs. 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. His poetry collection, The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea, was published by Picador in 2005, and his last novel, The Red House, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2012. He lives in Oxford.

Additional information

GOR001198782
9780385605878
0385605870
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Penguin Random House Children's UK
2003-05-01
288
Winner of Guardian Children's Fiction Award 2003 Winner of Booktrust Teenage Prize 2003 Short-listed for Whitbread Prize (Novel) 2003 Short-listed for Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2003
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