Name: Mark Haddon: Leaving Home
Start: 2026-03-21T19:00:00+00:00
Location: Augustine House Library Canterbury Christ Church University

Multi-million bestselling author and artist Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, presents a viciously funny and movingly illustrated memoir of 1970s family life.
As an artist and writer, Mark Haddon has always created vivid and unforgettable images. Now he takes his own life as raw material, writing about growing up in the cultural wastelands of the English Midlands of the 1960s and 70s.
Simultaneously heart-breaking and hilarious, Leaving Home is a portrait of the artist both as a child and as an adult brought to life with vivid illustrations.
Don’t miss this opportunity to hear – and see – about the makings of a remarkable artist.
Mark Haddon is a writer and artist. His bestselling novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (2003) won seventeen literary prizes, was translated into forty-five languages, and went on to become an award-winning stage adaptation by Simon Stephens. His most recent works of fiction include a novel, The Porpoise (2019), and a collection of fables and stories, Dogs and Monsters (2024).
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