So Misguided

Mark Haddon has a new novel, A Spot of Bother.

My friend Patricia over at BookLust and I enjoy Mark Haddon’s book design. So I hope she likes this cover as much as I do.

A Spot of Bother just arrived in the mail last week and it was very exciting to open up the package. I’d only see the cover online. In person it is quite spectacular.

I haven’t cracked the spine yet but I hope to this afternoon. Yesterday’s New York Times books section said, “Haddon is too gifted and too ambitious to write a hacky second novel. In fact, he’s so wondrously articulate, so rigorous in thinking through his characters’ mind-sets, that ‘A Spot of Bother’ serves as a fine example of why novels exist.”

Pretty high praise. I’ll let you know what I think.

Oh yes, Monique! I loved it, too. Very attractive.

The review of the book in the Globe and Mail wasn’t very postive though… of course, that won’t stop me from eventually reading it!

I loved this novel and I think that both the cover and the title encapsulate the content of the book beautifully.