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About a Boy is Nick Hornby´s comic and 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 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.

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?

This astonishing novel, now a modern classic, was adapted for the acclaimed 2002 film About A Boy, starring Hugh Grant and Nicholas Hoult. Fans of One Day by David Nicholls and 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 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

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Hornby, Nick
Nick Hornby is the author of six bestselling novels: High Fidelity; About a Boy; How to be Good; A Long Way Down; Juliet, Naked; and Funny Girl; as well as a novel for young adults, Slam. His non-fiction includes Fever Pitch, 31 Songs, The Complete Polysyllabic Spree and Stuff I´ve Been Reading. He has written numerous screenplays including the Oscar-nominated An Education and Brooklyn.

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