num_pages: 256
description: there is an alternative cover edition for this bookNick 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.
language: English
title: About a Boy
titlecomplete: About a Boy
characters: Will Freeman, Ellie, Fiona Waters
genres: Coming Of Age, Novels, Adult Fiction, Literature, Comedy, Adult, British Literature, Fiction, Contemporary, Humor
ratings_count: 134230
places: London, England
publisher: Cornelsen