by Mark Haddon · Doubleday · tapa dura · ISBN 9780385520515
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«A Spot of Bother» is Mark Haddon's literary fiction novel, published by Doubleday in hardback (354 pages, in English).
George Hall, at 61, expects a quiet retirement. His daughter Katie announces she will marry Ray, an unsuitable man; his son Jamie struggles with his relationship and his wife Jean is having an affair. When George discovers a lesion on his hip, he begins to lose his mind in silence. Black humour about family chaos.
First edition published in 2006. The novel was nominated for the Costa Book Award in the novel category.
For adult readers interested in stories about family dynamics and humour.
Mark Haddon is an English novelist, best known for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003). He won the Whitbread Award, the Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award, the Guardian Prize, and a Commonwealth Writers' Prize for his work.
