{"product_id":"leaving-home-an-exorcism","title":"Leaving Home : An Exorcism","description":"\u003cb\u003e'Tender, transporting, creative and beautifully written ...\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eSimply glorious, from start to finish'\u003c\/b\u003e Rachel Clarke, author of \u003ci\u003eDear Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Simultaneously heart-breaking and hilarious, \u003ci\u003eLeaving Home\u003c\/i\u003e is a portrait of the artist both as a child and as an adult.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e His parents were not really cut out for the job of having children. They were cut out, respectively, for the jobs of designing abattoirs and keeping a pathologically clean and tidy house. At least he had the consolations of \u003ci\u003eThe Weetabix Solar System Wallchart\u003c\/i\u003e, walnut whips and the occasional Babycham.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Astringently honest and scalpel sharp, this is a book about being different and seeing the world differently. It's about being a cartoonist and a care assistant. It's about family. It's about knickerbocker glories and heart surgery, about papier m che and mental breakdown and great white sharks. It's about how art, in all its varied forms, provides a way of understanding and coming to terms with the mess of human life.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e It's richly illustrated throughout with images from the author's childhood, some of them altered in unforgiveable ways.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAs bracing as it is embracing, \u003ci\u003eLeaving Home\u003c\/i\u003e is about escaping a place that never felt like home and learning to create somewhere that does.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'I loved this funny, melancholy and arrestingly original memoir of an artist's coming into being. It also made me quite badly want a Walnut Whip'\u003c\/b\u003e Sarah Perry, author of Enlightenment","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Leaving Home: An Exorcism","offer_id":45510829113541,"sku":null,"price":65.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-78474-623-0.jpg?v=1766048953","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/leaving-home-an-exorcism","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}