Mark Haddon ‘puzzled’ as Lincoln High School in Tallahassee, Florida, withdraws bestseller from school’s reading programme amid concerns over swearing

Mark Haddon.
‘My suspicion is that more people will read it’ ... Mark Haddon. Photograph: Katherine Anne Rose for the Observer

Author Mark Haddon has said that he is “puzzled and fascinated by the way in which some readers remain untroubled by the content of a novel but deeply offended by the language in which it is described”, after his award-winning book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was pulled from a summer reading list at a Florida school over parental concerns about swearing.

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