{"product_id":"mark-haddon-leaving-home-2026","title":"Mark Haddon: Leaving Home [2026]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Tender, transporting, creative and beautifully written ... \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eSimply glorious, from start to finish'\u003c\/b\u003e Rachel Clarke, author of \u003ci\u003eDear Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSimultaneously heart-breaking and darkly hilarious, \u003ci\u003eLeaving Home\u003c\/i\u003e is a portrait of the artist both as a child and as an adult.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMark Haddon's parents were not really cut out for the job of having children. They were cut out, respectively, for the jobs of designing abattoirs and keeping a pathologically clean and tidy house. At least Mark had the consolations of \u003ci\u003eThe Weetabix Solar System Wallchart\u003c\/i\u003e, walnut whips and the occasional Babycham.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAstringently honest and scalpel sharp, this is a book about being different and seeing the world differently. It's about being a cartoonist and a care assistant. It's about family. It's about how art, in all its varied forms, provides a way of understanding and coming to terms with the mess of human life. And it's richly illustrated throughout with images from the author's childhood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs bracing as it is embracing, \u003ci\u003eLeaving Home\u003c\/i\u003e is about escaping a place that never felt like home and learning to create somewhere that does.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I loved this funny, melancholy and arrestingly original memoir of an artist's coming into being' \u003c\/b\u003eSarah Perry, author of Enlightenment\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haddon, Mark","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":52982872932691,"sku":"9781784746230","price":32.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/haddon-mark-mark-haddon-leaving-home-2026-9781784746230-1219845246.jpg?v=1770664478","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/mark-haddon-leaving-home-2026","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}