In telling a painful story in the voice of a 15-year-old boy with Asperger's, Haddon broadens ordinary minds and helps to understand how they work, too.
Daily Telegraph

'Haddon's book is a peculiar thing - a kind of James Joyce for kids - but a genre-busting gem, nevertheless'
The Observer

I'm all for hearing different voices in fiction and I got my wish with this book. The story showed just how someone with Asperger's might view the world. Christopher finds a dead dog and sets about trying to find the dog's killer, but the book is much more than a mystery story... I loved the way Christopher tries to bring order to his world by using Maths which he finds far easier to understand than people
Malorie Blackman, Books for Keeps

In telling a painful story in the voice of a 15-year-old boy with Asperger's, Haddon broadens ordinary minds and helps to understand how they work, too.
Daily Telegraph

I'm all for hearing different voices in fiction and I got my wish with this book. The story showed just how someone with Asperger's might view the world. Christopher finds a dead dog and sets about trying to find the dog's killer, but the book is much more than a mystery story... I loved the way Christopher tries to bring order to his world by using Maths which he finds far easier to understand than people
Malorie Blackman, Books for Keeps

So genuine...It is chillingly heartbreaking and passionately positive in equal measure
Julia Eccleshare, Books for Keeps

So genuine...It is chillingly heartbreaking and passionately positive in equal measure
Julia Eccleshare, Books for Keeps

A magical book. It's one of those books that makes you feel as though you have been on an emotional rollercoaster.
Carrie Grant, Sunday Express

'Engaging, warm, humorous and poignant at the same time'
The Scotsman

A magical book. It's one of those books that makes you feel as though you have been on an emotional rollercoaster.
Carrie Grant, Sunday Express

Mark Haddon's portrayal of an emotionally dissociated mind is a superb achievement. He is a wise and bleakly funny writer with rare gifts of empathy
Ian McEwan,

'This book is amazing . . . A must read'
Martina Evans, Irish Post

The clash between Christopher's view of the world and the way it looks to the rest of us makes this an extraordinarily moving, often blackly funny read. It is hard to think of anyone who would not be moved and delighted by this book, so the decision to publish it simultaneously for older children and adults is certainly well-founded.
Financial Times

Mark Haddon's portrayal of an emotionally dissociated mind is a superb achievement. He is a wise and bleakly funny writer with rare gifts of empathy
Ian McEwan,

The clash between Christopher's view of the world and the way it looks to the rest of us makes this an extraordinarily moving, often blackly funny read. It is hard to think of anyone who would not be moved and delighted by this book, so the decision to publish it simultaneously for older children and adults is certainly well-founded.
Financial Times

A wonderful first person narrative of a boy with Asperger's Syndrome; funny, sad and extraordinarily original
Guardian

I have never read anything quite like Mark Haddon's funny and agonizingly honest book, or encountered a narrator more vivid and memorable. I advise you to buy two copies; you won't want to lend yours out
Arthur Golden, author of 'Memoirs of a Geisha'

A wonderful first person narrative of a boy with Asperger's Syndrome; funny, sad and extraordinarily original
Guardian

I have never read anything quite like Mark Haddon's funny and agonizingly honest book, or encountered a narrator more vivid and memorable. I advise you to buy two copies; you won't want to lend yours out
Arthur Golden, author of 'Memoirs of a Geisha'

'Mark Haddon's portrayal of an emotionally dissociated mind is a superb achievement. He is a wise and bleakly funny writer with rare gifts of empathy' Ian McEwan

Original, moving and entertaining for adults as well as for older children
Julia Donaldson, Daily Express

'I have never read anything quite like Mark Haddon's funny and agonizingly honest book, or encountered a narrator more vivid and memorable. I advise you to buy two copies; you won't want to lend yours out.' Arthur Golden , author of Memoirs of a Geisha

Original, moving and entertaining for adults as well as for older children
Julia Donaldson, Daily Express

A delightful and brilliant book. Very moving, very plausible and very funny
Oliver Sacks

A delightful and brilliant book. Very moving, very plausible and very funny
Oliver Sacks

Brilliantly empathetic. Believe the hype: a brilliant, heart-warming book
Scotsman

Brilliantly empathetic. Believe the hype: a brilliant, heart-warming book
Scotsman

A remarkable book. An impressive achievement and a rewarding read
Time Out

A remarkable book. An impressive achievement and a rewarding read
Time Out

Outstanding. Heartening as well as richly entertaining. A stunningly good read
Independent

Outstanding. Heartening as well as richly entertaining. A stunningly good read
Independent

Superbly realised. A funny as well as a sad book. Brilliant
Guardian

Superbly realised. A funny as well as a sad book. Brilliant
Guardian

A beautifully written book. Haddon is to be congratulated for imagining a new kind of hero, for the humbling instruction this warm and often funny novel offers and for showing that the best lives are lived where difference is cherished
Daily Telegraph

A beautifully written book. Haddon is to be congratulated for imagining a new kind of hero, for the humbling instruction this warm and often funny novel offers and for showing that the best lives are lived where difference is cherished
Daily Telegraph

To get an idea of what The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is like, think of The Sound and the Fury crossed with The Catcher in the Rye and one of Oliver Sacks's real-life stories
New York Times

To get an idea of what The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is like, think of The Sound and the Fury crossed with The Catcher in the Rye and one of Oliver Sacks's real-life stories
New York Times

Exceptional by any standards. Both funny and deeply moving
Sunday Telegraph

Exceptional by any standards. Both funny and deeply moving
Sunday Telegraph

Becky Fallowfield 30 April 2010

If you have not read this book yet, why not? Where have you been? I strongly recommend that you do, it is a classic. It is a story from the perspective of a teenage boy with asperger's. It is a funny, well-observed, poignant book that will make you want to chuckle and cry all at the same time (in a good way!). It is one of those books you won’t be able to put down and then feel sad when you finish it.

Megan Joyce 02 August 2010

This book is quite frankly amazing. It's funny, touching and poignant. A book that tells the tale of a young teenage boy with asperger's, and gives you an insight into their mind. If you haven't read this book, you must! Each time you pick it up, you will smile, knowing that something will happen, and you will not want to put it down. And once you are nearing the end and have finished, you will be sad, as you didn't want it to end.

vixa delic 23 December 2010

This book is brilliant, absolutely brilliant. It tells the story of Christopher, a teenage boy with asperger's, and delves beautifully, faithfully and frankly into how he interprets and understands the world around him. When a neighbours dog is found dead, Christopher's world is flipped upside down - and he begins a huge journey. Very well written and very poignant (especially Christopher's relationship with his absent mother) this is a book for anyone - kids, teens, adults alike.