A Spot of Bother - Mark Haddon

Posted : 1 year, 9 months ago at Mar 4 11:26

Mark Haddon made a big splash with his debut novel "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" about an autistic boy in England that tries to solve the murder of his neighbor's dog. This time around Haddon goes for a more mainstream story, though the characters could hardly be considered normal. Here is a description of the plot from a review at Publishers Weekly that I have chopped up to get rid of the more opinionated parts: --- Sixty-one year old recent retiree George Hall, convinced that his eczema is cancer, goes into a tailspin dealing with the everyday British domestic life. George, 61, is clearly channeling a host of other worries into the discoloration on his hip (the "spot of bother"): daughter Katie, who has a toddler, Jacob, from her disastrous first-marriage ...Read more

Rating : 7/10