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