{"product_id":"leaving-home-mark-haddon-9781784746230","title":"Leaving Home","description":"\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'Tender, transporting, creative and beautifully written ... Simply glorious, from start to finish' Rachel Clarke, author of Dear Life\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSimultaneously heart-breaking and darkly hilarious, Leaving Home 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, Leaving Home is about escaping a place that never felt like home and learning to create somewhere that does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'I loved this funny, melancholy and arrestingly original memoir of an artist's coming into being' Sarah Perry, author of Enlightenment\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mark Haddon","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":48834495119603,"sku":"9781784746230","price":59.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781784746230.jpg?v=1776196801","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/leaving-home-mark-haddon-9781784746230","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}