num_pages: 278
description: Will is thirty-six but acts like a teenager. He reads the right magazines, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He's also discovered a great way to score with women - at single parents' groups, full of available mothers, all waiting for Mr Nice. That's where he meets Marcus, the oldest twelve-year-old in the world. Marcus is a bit strange: he listens to Mozart, looks after his mum and he's never even owned a pair of trainers. Perhaps if Will can teach Marcus how to be a kid, Marcus can help Will grow up...
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: 134223
places: London, England
publisher: Penguin Books, Limited (UK)