About the book
In late 1998, 15-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone of Swindon finds his neighbour's dog Wellington killed with a garden fork. Mark Haddon's mystery novel is narrated by Christopher himself, who knows every country and its capital and a long run of prime numbers, cannot stand being touched and hates the colour yellow. After a brief arrest for hitting a policeman at the scene, he decides to investigate the death and record his findings in a book, against his father's wishes. Haddon numbered the chapters with primes rather than in the usual order. The novel won the Whitbread Book of the Year and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, among other awards.
Vanessa Keng, co-founder of The Golden Concepts, said it told her a story from an entirely different perspective, a change from the crime and legal thrillers she usually reads.
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Vanessa Keng (Co-Founder/The Golden Concepts)
I've always loved fiction - mainly crime and legal thrillers, but there's something wonderful about reading a completely different style of writing from what I'm used to. I found myself absorbed in the narrative of guilt and love in The Kite Runner, and The Curious Incident told me a story from a completely different perspective.
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