The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the SeaBy: Mark Haddon That Mark Haddon's first book after The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time was a poetry collection perhaps came as a surprise to his legions of fans; that it is a collection of such virtuosity and range did not. The gifts so admired in Haddon's prose are in strong evidence here too the humanity of his voices, the dark humour and the uncanny ventriloquism but Haddon is also a writer of considerable seriousness, lyric power