{"product_id":"9781784746230","title":"Leaving Home : A Memoir in Full Colour","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Haddon, Mark\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eMemoirs\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 5 February 2026 by Vintage Publishing (Chatto \u0026amp; Windus) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 224 pages\u003cbr\u003e240 x 159 | 694g\u003cp\u003e'Tender, transporting, creative and beautifully written ... Simply glorious, from start to finish' Rachel Clarke, author of Dear LifeSimultaneously heart-breaking and darkly hilarious, Leaving Home is a portrait of the artist both as a child and as an adult.\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 The Weetabix Solar System Wallchart, 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\u003eAs bracing as it is embracing, Leaving Home is about escaping a place that never felt like home and learning to create somewhere that does.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'I loved this funny, melancholy and arrestingly original memoir of an artist's coming into being' Sarah Perry, author of Enlightenment\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haddon, Mark","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52509257892024,"sku":"9781784746230","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781784746230.jpg?v=1769596802","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781784746230","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}