Reviews & Overviews by Rod Cameron

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

Publisher:

Vintage Books

Date:

2003

Size:

272 Pages

Format:

Paperback

Price:

£6.99

ISBN:

978-0-099-45025-2

Reviewed by:

Rod Cameron

Review Date:

March 2007

This is an amazing book. Mark Haddon has managed to get inside of the mind of an autistic 15 year old who suffers from Asperger’s Syndrome. This imbues the whole story with a completely alien quality which one normally finds only in the very best of science fiction.

This book is a detective story – the dog in the title has been killed on the front lawn of a neighbour’s house. The hero Christopher Boone sets out to solve the murder despite the fact that he knows a very great deal about Maths and Science but very little about human beings. He dislikes being touched, cannot look people in the eye and bases his whole day on the colours of cars he sees on the way to school.

This is a wonderful, funny and amazing book. I cannot recommend it too highly. It has been out for a good while, so you should be able to buy it for a discounted price. Do so on an urgent basis.