{"product_id":"leaving-home-a-memoir-in-full-colour","title":"Leaving Home: A Memoir in Full Colour","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSimultaneously heart-breaking and darkly hilarious,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLeaving Home\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a portrait of the artist both as a child and as an adult.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Weetabix Solar System Wallchart\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, walnut whips and the occasional Babycham.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAs bracing as it is embracing,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLeaving Home\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis about escaping a place that never felt like home and learning to create somewhere that does.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55319282745729,"sku":"9781784746230","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0244\/8444\/6286\/files\/leavinghome.png?v=1770302676","url":"https:\/\/shop.bl.uk\/products\/leaving-home-a-memoir-in-full-colour","provider":"British Library Online Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}