{"product_id":"leaving-home-a-memoir-in-full-colour-9781784746230","title":"Leaving Home: A Memoir In Full Colour","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Mark Haddon\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Penguin Random House Uk\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Chatto \u0026amp; Windus\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Nonfiction - Biography \u0026amp; Memoir\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Tender, transporting, creative and beautifully written ... \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSimply glorious, from start to finish'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Rachel Clarke, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDear Life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSimultaneously heart-breaking and darkly hilarious, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLeaving Home\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e is a portrait of the artist both as a child and as an adult.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Weetabix Solar System Wallchart\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, walnut whips and the occasional Babycham.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAs bracing as it is embracing, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLeaving Home\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e is about escaping a place that never felt like home and learning to create somewhere that does.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I loved this funny, melancholy and arrestingly original memoir of an artist's coming into being' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSarah Perry, author of Enlightenment\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House Uk","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46946046804119,"sku":"9781784746230","price":1105.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781784746230.webp?v=1772190936","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/leaving-home-a-memoir-in-full-colour-9781784746230","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}