Leaving Home Horses & ponies told through the stories of

told through the stories of the many great writers who came to witness it

keep on track and feel brilliant inside and out

as well as inspiring us to make it a better one

Someone to help with the weekly food shop and offer tips on the crossword

friends who see her for who she is

Leaving Home Horses & ponies told through the stories ofMark 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. Astringently honest and scalpel sharp, this is a book about being different and seeing the world differently. It's about being a cartoonist