About a Boy

Nick Hornby's second bestselling novel is about sex, manliness and fatherhood. Will is thirty-six, comfortable and child-free. And he's discovered a brilliant new way of meeting women - through single-parent groups. Marcus is twelve and a little bitnerdish: he's got the kind of mother who made him listen to Joni Mitchell rather than Nirvana. Perhaps they can help each other out a little bit, and both can start to act their age.

First sentence: "So, have you split up now?"

Year

2002

Language

English

Publisher

Penguin Books

Editions

52

Reader rating

3.4 / 5 (23)

Pages

278

ISBN

9780241969809

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