Leaving Home: A Memoir in Full Colour by Haddon, Mark
Leaving Home: A Memoir in Full Colour by Haddon, Mark

Leaving Home: A Memoir in Full Colour

An unflinching, brilliantly written, darkly funny, lavishly illustrated memoir by the acclaimed author of The Curious Incident...
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Author: Mark Haddon
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Leaving Home: A Memoir in Full Colour by Haddon, Mark

Leaving Home: A Memoir in Full Colour

$87.99 $50.00
Leaving Home: A Memoir in Full Colour by Haddon, Mark

Leaving Home: A Memoir in Full Colour

$87.99 $50.00
Author: Mark Haddon
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
An unflinching, brilliantly written, darkly funny, lavishly illustrated memoir by the acclaimed author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time A ringing testament about how one artist sees the world, and how his experiences have shaped his vision

"Tender, addictive, informative and unlike anything else―and brilliantly illustrated. It's a gem." ―Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Simultaneously heart-breaking and hilarious, Leaving Home is a portrait of the artist both as a child and as an adult. His 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 he had the consolations of The Weetabix Solar System Wallchart, walnut whips and the occasional Babycham.

Astringently 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 knickerbocker glories and heart surgery, about papier mâché and mental breakdown and great white sharks. 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. It's richly illustrated throughout with images from the author's childhood, some of them altered in unforgiveable ways. As bracing as it is embracing, Leaving Home is about escaping a place that never felt like home and learning to create somewhere that does.

Author: Mark Haddon
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Published: 02/17/2026
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.52lbs
Size: 9.45h x 6.40w x 0.99d
ISBN: 9780385551892


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2026
Booklist 02/01/2026
Publishers Weekly 02/23/2026
Shelf Awareness 01/01/0001

About the Author
MARK HADDON is a writer and artist. His bestselling novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003) won seventeen literary prizes, was translated into XX languages, and went on to become an award-winning stage adaptation by Simon Stephens. His most recent works of fiction include a novel, The Porpoise (2019), and a collection of fables and stories, Dogs and Monsters (2024).
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