About a Boy is Nick Hornby&s comic & heart-warming million-copy bestseller& How cool was Will Freeman?& Too cool! At thirty-six he&s as hip as a teenager He&s single child-free goes to the right clubs & knows which trainers to wear He&s also found a great way to score with women attend single parents& groups full of available (and grateful) mothers all hoping to meet a Nice Guy Which is how Will meets Marcus the oldest twelve-year-old on the planet Marcus is a bit strange he listens to Joni Mitchell & Mozart looks after his mum & has never owned a pair of trainers But Marcus latches on to Will
- & won&t let go Can Will teach Marcus how to grow up cool? & can Marcus help Will just to grow up? This astonishing novel now a modern classic was adapted for the acclaimed 2002 film About A Boy starring Hugh Grant & Nicholas Hoult Fans of One Day by David Nicholls & Any Human Heart by William Boyd will devour this book as will lovers of fiction everywhere &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 & adults meet & Hornby has captured it with delightful precision& Irish Times& It takes a writer with real talent to make this work & Hornby has it
- in buckets& Literary Review