Mark Haddon is an English author of children’s books and literary fiction novels. He attended at Uppingham School and Merton College, Oxford, where he studied English. Mark is an vegetarian who enjoys vegetarian cookery. Mark lives in Oxford, England with his wife, Dr. Sos Eltis, and their two sons.
Mark Haddon made his debut as an author in 1988 with the picture book Toni and the Tomato Soup. Below is a list of Mark Haddon’s books in order of when they were first released:
Mark Haddon Synopsis:A Spot of Bother is a standalone novel by Mark Haddon. George Hall is an unobtrusive man. Distant, cautious, and not quite at ease with the emotional demands of fatherhood or of manly bonhomie. Some things in life can’t be ignored, however: his tempestuous daughter Katie’s deeply inappropriate boyfriend Ray, for instance, or the sudden appearance of a red circular rash on his hip.
At 57, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in his garden and enjoying the freedom to be alone when he wants. But then he runs into a spot of bother. That red circular rash on his hip: George convinces himself it’s skin cancer. And the deeply inappropriate Ray? Katie announces he will become her second husband. The planning for these frowned-upon nuptials proves a great inconvenience to George’s wife, Jean, who is carrying on a late-life affair with her husband’s ex-colleague. The Halls do not approve of Ray, for vague reasons summed up by their son Jamie’s observation that Ray has “strangler’s hands.” Jamie himself has his own problems — his tidy and pleasant life comes apart when he fails to invite his lover, Tony, to Katie’s wedding. And Katie, a woman whose ferocious temper once led to the maiming of a carjacker, can’t decide if she loves Ray, or loves the wonderful way he has with her son Jacob.
Unnoticed in the uproar, George quietly begins to go mad. The way these damaged people fall apart — and come together — as a family is the true subject of Haddon’s hilarious and disturbing portrait of a dignified man trying to go insane politely.
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