Christopher remains apprehensive of Ed, hoping he will be imprisoned for killing Wellington. Shears as he becomes increasingly hostile towards both her and Christopher.Īfter an argument, Judy agrees to let Ed see Christopher for brief daily visits. Soon after arriving, Christopher wants to return to Swindon in order to take his mathematics A-level. Shears, much to the delight of the former and chagrin of the latter. Christopher decides to run away and live with his mother.Īfter a long, event-filled journey, evading policemen and feeling ill from the trains and crowds around him, he finally finds his way to the home of his mother and Mr. Ed also confesses that he had killed Wellington in anger after an argument with Mrs. Realising that Christopher has discovered the letters, Ed admits to lying about Judy's death and reveals she is still alive and living in London with Mr. While searching Ed's room for the book, Christopher finds letters from his mother dated after her supposed death, leading him to become distressed and enter a catatonic state. Shears.Įd discovers the book and confiscates it. Alexander, who informs Christopher that his mother had an affair with Mr. During his investigation, he meets the elderly Mrs. He decides to investigate the dog's death, chronicling any information he receives in a book. When a policeman grabs Christopher's arm, Christopher panics and hits him, resulting in him being arrested for assaulting a police officer, though he is quickly released with a police caution. As Christopher mourns over Wellington's body, Mrs. Shears' dog, Wellington, has been fatally speared with a garden fork. One night, Christopher discovers that his neighbour Mrs. Christopher's mother, Judy, died from a heart attack two years prior to the events of the story. Plot Ĭhristopher John Francis Boone is a 15-year-old boy with autism living in Swindon, England, with his widowed father, Ed. Originally written in English, it has been translated into 36 additional languages. The book uses prime numbers to number the chapters, rather than the conventional successive numbers. The book is not specifically about any specific disorder", and that he, Haddon, is not an expert on the autism spectrum or Asperger syndrome. In July 2009, Haddon wrote on his blog that " The Curious Incident is not a book about Asperger's.if anything it's a novel about difference, about being an outsider, about seeing the world in a surprising and revealing way. Although Christopher's condition is not stated, the book's blurb refers to Asperger syndrome (which today would be described as an autism spectrum disorder), high-functioning autism, or savant syndrome. The novel is narrated in the first-person perspective by Christopher John Francis Boone, a 15-year-old boy who is described as "a mathematician with some behavioural difficulties" living in Swindon, Wiltshire. Unusually, it was published simultaneously in separate editions for adults and children. Haddon and The Curious Incident won the Whitbread Book Awards for Best Novel and Book of the Year, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book, and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. Its title refers to an observation by the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes (created by Arthur Conan Doyle) in the 1892 short story " The Adventure of Silver Blaze". The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a 2003 mystery novel by British writer Mark Haddon.
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