The Curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Mark Haddon
Detective story
This book is written in the first person and is about
a 15 year-old-boy who has Asperger syndrome. His name is Christopher Boone and
he lives with his dad: Ed Boone in Swindon. At the beginning of the book
Christopher explains that his mother died 2 years before he wrote this book.
The book all kicks off when Christopher discovers the
dog of his neighbour Mrs Shears speared by a garden fork and he is one of the
suspects.
He then starts searching around for clues about who
killed the dog although his father tells him to stay out of other people’s
business.
He meets a lot of people while he is searching for
clues including the old Mrs Alexander who tells him that his mum is not in fact
dead but divorced because she had an affair with Mr Shears.
This is when Christopher starts to suspect his dad of
suspicious behaviour and one day he has a slight argument which results in the
confiscation of the book that Christopher's writing
When Christopher finds his book in his dad’s room he
comes across some letters that his mum wrote to him well after her supposed
death…
What I enjoyed about this book: it was very inspiring.
I would recommend this book to anyone who likes mystery in
books.
I give this book a
5/5
Aaron
5emeB
