{"product_id":"leaving-home","title":"Leaving Home","description":"\u003cb\u003eViciously funny, and illustrated in full colour: a memoir of 1970s family life by multi-million copy bestselling author and artist Mark Haddon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Tender, transporting, creative and beautifully written ... \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eSimply glorious, from start to finish'\u003c\/b\u003e Rachel Clarke, author of \u003ci\u003eDear Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSimultaneously heart-breaking and darkly hilarious, \u003ci\u003eLeaving Home\u003c\/i\u003e is a portrait of the artist both as a child and as an adult.\u003c\/b\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 \u003ci\u003eThe Weetabix Solar System Wallchart\u003c\/i\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\u003cb\u003eAs bracing as it is embracing, \u003ci\u003eLeaving Home\u003c\/i\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\/b\u003eSarah Perry, author of Enlightenment","brand":"Mark Haddon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43516626632765,"sku":null,"price":56.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/leaving-home","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}