Christopher Boone is a 15-year-old boy with Asperger's Syndrome.

The book is told entirely from his POV, and centres largely around his discovery of a murdered dog in a neighbour's garden.

Christopher has to overcome his natural tendencies of mistrusting people he doesn't know, and not being comfortable around strangers to investigate a crime that nobody, not even his own father, is interested in.

While investigating the crime, he not only has to prepare to sit his A-level Maths exam, he also discovers that everything he has been told about his mother might not be completely true.

Anyone who likes a mystery. I'm not saying this is Agatha Cristie quality, but the way it is written is entertaining.

The way how Christopher's character is written with such accuracy. All of his little foibles are classic of autism spectrum, and they flow consistently throughout the book.

I particularly loved the way how the author chose to number the chapters of the book in prime numbers, because Christopher likes prime numbers.

Mark Haddon is an author, illustrator and screenwriter who has written fifteen books for children and won two BAFTAs. His bestselling novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, was published simultaneously by Jonathan Cape and David Fickling in 2003. It won seventeen literary prizes, including the Whitbread Award. His poetry collection, The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea, was published by Picador in 2005, and his last novel, The Red House, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2012. He lives in Oxford.

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