About a Boy

<p><i>About a Boy</i> is Nick Hornby's comic and heart-warming million-copy bestseller <br><br><b>'How cool was Will Freeman?'</b><br><br>Too cool! At thirty-six, he's as hip as a teenager. He's single, child-free, goes to the right clubs and 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.<br><br>Which is how Will meets Marcus, the oldest twelve-year-old on the planet. Marcus is a bit strange: he listens to Joni Mitchell and Mozart, looks after his mum and has never owned a pair of trainers. But Marcus latches on to Will - and won't let go. Can Will teach Marcus how to grow up cool? And can Marcus help Will just to grow up?<br><br>This astonishing novel, now a modern classic, was adapted for the acclaimed 2002 film <i>About A Boy</i>, starring Hugh Grant and Nicholas Hoult. Fans of <i>One Day</i> by David Nicholls and <i>Any Human Heart</i> by William Boyd will devour this book, as will lovers of fiction everywhere.<br><br>'A stunner of a novel. Utterly read-in-one-day, forget-where-you-are-on-the-tube-gripping' <i>Marie Claire</i><br><br>'About the awful, hilarious, embarrassing places where children and adults meet, and Hornby has captured it with delightful precision' <i>Irish Times</i><br><br>'It takes a writer with real talent to make this work, and Hornby has it - in buckets' <i>Literary Review</i></p> <p><i>About a Boy</i> is Nick Hornby's comic and heart-warming million-copy bestseller <br><br><b>'How cool was Will Freeman?'</b><br><br>Too cool! At thirty-six, he's as hip as a teenager. He's single, child-free, goes to the right clubs and 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.<br><br>Which is how Will meets Marcus, the oldest twelve-year-old on the planet. Marcus is a bit strange: he listens to Joni Mitchell and Mozart, looks after his mum and has never owned a pair of trainers. But Marcus latches on to Will - and won't let go. Can Will teach Marcus how to grow up cool? And can Marcus help Will just to grow up?<br><br>This astonishing novel, now a modern classic, was adapted for the acclaimed 2002 film <i>About A Boy</i>, starring Hugh Grant and Nicholas Hoult. Fans of <i>One Day</i> by David Nicholls and <i>Any Human Heart</i> by William Boyd will devour this book, as will lovers of fiction everywhere.<br><br>'A stunner of a novel. Utterly read-in-one-day, forget-where-you-are-on-the-tube-gripping' <i>Marie Claire</i><br><br>'About the awful, hilarious, embarrassing places where children and adults meet, and Hornby has captured it with delightful precision' <i>Irish Times</i><br><br>'It takes a writer with real talent to make this work, and Hornby has it - in buckets' <i>Literary Review</i></p>