A Spot of Bother

Mark Haddon

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Aug 14, 2007 - Fiction - 390 pages

A Washington Post Best Book of the YearA Spot of Bother is Mark Haddon’s unforgettable follow-up to the internationally beloved bestseller The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. At sixty-one, George Hall is settling down to a comfortable retirement. When his tempestuous daughter, Katie, announces that she is getting married to the deeply inappropriate Ray, the Hall family is thrown into a tizzy. Unnoticed in the uproar, George discovers a sinister lesion on his hip, and quietly begins to lose his mind.As parents and children fall apart and come together, Haddon paints a disturbing yet amusing portrait of a dignified man trying to go insane politely.


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Review: A Spot of Bother

User Review  - Susan - Goodreads

Haddon is a skilled writer and observant satirist of cultural norms. What he did so ingeniously in 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time', here his efforts are less successful. His ...

Review: A Spot of Bother

User Review  - Bjorn - Goodreads

My opinion of Haddon from The Curious Incident... is pretty much intact: ho-hum. Bother is a quick read for 375 pages, there's quite a few chuckles and even one or two pretty poignant things about ...

About the author

MARK HADDON is the author of the international bestseller, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction and the Whitbread Book of the Year award. In addition to the recently published The Talking Horse, the Sad Girl, and the Village Under the Sea, a collection of poetry, Haddon has also written and illustrated numerous awardwinning children's books and television screenplays. He teaches writing for the Arvon foundation and at Oxford University. He lives in Oxford with his wife and son.


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Bibliographic information

• Title: A Spot of Bother
• Author: Mark Haddon
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007
• ISBN: 0307387690, 9780307387691
• Length: 390 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Literary