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The multi-million-copy bestselling phenomenon, and a mystery story like no other.

‘Brilliantly inventive . . . This isn’t simply the most original novel I’ve read in years. It’s also one of the best’ The Times

‘Outstanding’ Observer

‘A remarkable book’ Time Out

Christopher is fifteen and autistic. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched.

Christopher has never gone further than the end of the road on his own. But when he finds a neighbour’s dog murdered, he sets out on a journey which will turn his whole world upside down.

‘Exceptional by any standards . . . When we look at the world through Christopher’s eyes we see it more clearly and understand ourselves better. What more could you want of a book?’ Sunday Telegraph

‘I have never read anything quite like Mark Haddon’s funny and agonizingly honest book, or encountered a narrator more vivid and memorable. I advise you to buy two copies; you won’t want to lend yours out’ Arthur Golden

Publisher Review

Haddon is to be congratulated for imagining a new kind of hero, for the humbling instruction this warm and often funny novel offers and for showing that the best lives are lived where difference is cherished -- Carol Ann Duffy * Daily Telegraph * The clash between Christopher's view of the world and the way it looks to the rest of us makes this an extraordinarily moving, often blackly funny read. It is hard to think of anyone who would not be moved and delighted by this book, so the decision to publish it simultaneously for older children and adults is certainly well-founded -- Jill Slotover * Financial Times * Brilliantly inventive, full of dazzling set-pieces, unbearably sad, yet also skilfully dodging any encounters with sentimentality, this isn't simply the most original novel I've read in years . . . It's also one of the best * The Times * A stroke of genius, as the advantages of having a naive, literal-minded boy in the driving seat are manifold . . . We do learn what it might feel like to have Asperger's Syndrome -- David Newnham * TES * The book gave me that rare, greedy feeling of: this is so good I want to read it all at once but I mustn't or it will be over too soon -- Kate Kellaway * Observer *