{"product_id":"leaving-home-by-mark-haddon-9781784746230","title":"Leaving Home","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eViciously funny, and illustrated in full colour—a memoir of 1970s family life by multi-million copy bestselling author and artist Mark Haddon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Tender, transporting, creative and beautifully written ... Simply glorious, from start to finish'\u003c\/em\u003e — Rachel Clarke, author of \u003cem\u003eDear Life\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSimultaneously heart-breaking and darkly hilarious, \u003cem\u003eLeaving Home\u003c\/em\u003e is a portrait of the artist both as a child and as an adult.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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 The Weetabix Solar System Wallchart, walnut whips and the occasional Babycham.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs bracing as it is embracing, \u003cem\u003eLeaving Home\u003c\/em\u003e is about escaping a place that never felt like home and learning to create somewhere that does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'I loved this funny, melancholy and arrestingly original memoir of an artist's coming into being'\u003c\/em\u003e — Sarah Perry, author of \u003cem\u003eEnlightenment\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47269577785580,"sku":"9781784746230","price":65.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/82d696ab5ca51d5594f5315a2390fc30.jpg?v=1769986221","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/leaving-home-by-mark-haddon-9781784746230","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}