The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Fifteen-year-old Christopher Boone, a mathematically gifted boy on the autism spectrum, finds a neighbour's poodle killed with a garden fork and sets out to investigate, writing his findings as a book. The inquiry leads him to uncomfortable truths about his parents and a journey alone to London. Its title is lifted from a Sherlock Holmes story, and it was a landmark in fiction for both children and adults.
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