About a Boy

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ABOUT A BOY has sold over 800,000 copies in paperback since publication. Nick Hornby's second bestselling novel is about sex, manliness and fatherhood. Will is thirty-six, comfortable and child-free. And he's discovered a brilliant new way of meeting women - through single-parent groups. Marcus is twelve and a little bitnerdish- he's got the kind of mother who made him listen to Joni Mitchell rather than Nirvana. Perhaps they can help each other out a little bit, and both can start to act their age.

NICK HORNBY is the bestselling author of eight novels, including Just Like You, High Fidelity and About a Boy, and several works of nonfiction including Fever Pitch. He has also written numerous award-winning screenplays for film and television including Brooklyn, Wild and, most recently, State of the Union.

A very entertaining and endearing read * The Times * A stunner of a novel. Utterly read-in-one-day, forget-where-you-are-on-the-tube-gripping * Marie Claire * About the awful, hilarious, embarrassing places where children and adults meet, and Hornby has captured it with delightful precision * Irish Times * It takes a writer with real talent to make this work, and Hornby has it - in buckets * Literary Review *