A Spot of Bother (Vintage)

by Mark Haddon

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2006 (copyright)

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Peterborough, England

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New York Times bestseller (Fiction, 2006)

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To My Continuity Girl

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It began when George was trying ona black suit in Allders the week before Bob Green's funeral.

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0307278867, Paperback)

A Washington Post Best Book of the Year

A 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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