And this shows that people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth. And it shows that something called Occam's razor is true. And Occam's razor is not a razor that men shave with but a Law, and it says: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. Which is Latin and it means: No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary. Which means that a murder victim is usually killed by someone known to them and fairies are made out of paper and you can't talk to someone who is dead.

com Haddon claimed that this was the first book that he wrote intentionally for an adult audience; he was surprised when his publiMark Haddonr suggested marketing it to both adult and child audiences (it has been a great hit with adults and children alike). In 2003 Haddon won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and in 2004 the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Overall Best First Book for his novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time a book which is written from the perspective of a 15-year-old boy with Asperger syndrome. In 2009 he donated the short story "The Island" to Oxfam's 'Ox-Tales' project four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors.