Leaving Home : A Memoir in Full Colour by Mark Haddon vegetarian Aware that such a book

Aware that such a book could turn into a “recitation of the failings of others”

Clark challenges received wisdom

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stealing the most secret Soviet archives and smuggling them to the West

writing of the “diminution of the National Trust” from a “visionary organisation” to a “stuffy pillar of the heritage industry”

Leaving Home : A Memoir in Full Colour by Mark Haddon vegetarian Aware that such a book'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. Mark 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