Editor Reviews:

Product Description:
A Washington Post Best Book of the Year

A Spot of Bother is Mark Haddon’s unforgettable follow-up to the internationally beloved bestseller The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

At sixty-one, George Hall is settling down to a comfortable retirement. When his tempestuous daughter, Katie, announces that she is getting married to the deeply inappropriate Ray, the Hall family is thrown into a tizzy. Unnoticed in the uproar, George discovers a sinister lesion on his hip, and quietly begins to lose his mind.

As parents and children fall apart and come together, Haddon paints a disturbing yet amusing portrait of a dignified man trying to go insane politely.

Rating : - Strangely Comforting......
This guy knows how to tell a story. Endearing and frightening at the same time. He will make you squirm uncomfortably. The mesmerizing high points are worth the effort. His female characters are believable even though they are not created with the passion or the compassion as the male. Overall, the character development was still outstanding. The story moves brilliantly. It cohesiveness and irony make a warm and fantastically ordinary story memorable. I loved his previous work (The Curious Incident...) and hope to read more from him soon.