Book description
At fifty-seven, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement,
building a shed in his garden, reading historical novels, listening to
a bit of light jazz. Then Katie, his tempestuous daughter, announces
that she is getting remarried, to Ray. Her family is not pleased - as
her brother Jamie observes, Ray has 'strangler's hands'. Katie can't
decide if she loves Ray, or loves the way he cares for her son Jacob,
and her mother Jean is a bit put out by the way the wedding planning
gets in the way of her affair with one of her husband's former
colleagues. And the tidy and pleasant life Jamie has created crumbles
when he fails to invite his lover, Tony, to the dreaded nuptials.
Unnoticed in the uproar, George discovers a sinister lesion on his
hip, and quietly begins to lose his mind.
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.
