{"product_id":"leaving-home-a-memoir-in-full-colour-1","title":"Leaving Home: A Memoir in Full Colour","description":"\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\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 \u003ci\u003eThe Weetabix Solar System Wallchart\u003c\/i\u003e, walnut whips and the occasional Babycham.\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003cp\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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I loved this funny, melancholy and arrestingly original memoir of an artist's coming into being' \u003c\/b\u003eSarah Perry, author of Enlightenment\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mark Haddon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67792372433074,"sku":"9781529960754","price":345.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/files\/9781529960754.jpg?v=1792803866","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/leaving-home-a-memoir-in-full-colour-1","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}