About a Boy

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