The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME is Mark Haddon’s debut novel and it’s beautifully written in the first-person narration. The story is about a fifteen-year-old autistic boy named Christopher John Francis Boone who is mathematically gifted but socially hopeless. He is superbly logical and sees everything literally based on patterns, rules and diagrams. You’ll be able to observe this by the way the book is being written.

One night, Christopher sees his neighbor’s poodle, Wellington, lying on the grass. He takes a look and finds the poor pooch killed by a garden fork. […]