Cover of About a Boy

About a Boy

by Nick Hornby

1998 · literary fiction · children

Set in 1 place · 1 primary
Sense of Place
5/5
Description · Open Library (CC0)

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.

Set in

  • Islington · United Kingdom
    Will and Marcus neighborhood
    ★ primary

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