The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon, 2003
A fifteen-year-old who thinks in prime numbers and cannot read faces sets out to solve the death of a neighbour's dog, and finds his own family instead.
Mark Haddon
Haddon worked as a carer for disabled adults in his twenties. The title comes from a line in the Sherlock Holmes story Silver Blaze.
Feels like family, curiosity and society.
How a father says I love you without touching his son.
I stepped outside. Father was standing in the corridor. He held up his right hand and spread his fingers out in a fan. I held up my left hand and spread my fingers out in a fan and we made our fingers and thumbs touch each other. We do this because sometimes Father wants to give me a hug, but I do not like hugging people, so we do this instead, and it means that he loves me. Books by Mark Haddon
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