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About a Boy
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  • Published: 2 January 2001
  • ISBN: 9780141924359
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288

About a Boy

Formats & editions
Paperback
29 July 2021
Paperback
2 Jan 2014
Paperback
27 June 2002
EBook
2 Jan 2001
Audiobook
25 Feb 2016
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ABOUT A BOY has sold over 800,000 copies in paperback since publication.

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.
  • Published: 2 January 2001
  • ISBN: 9780141924359
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288

About the author

Nick Hornby

Nick Hornby is the bestselling author of nine novels, including High Fidelity, About a Boy, and Just Like You, as well as several works of nonfiction including Fever Pitch. His books have sold over 3.5 million copies in the UK, and many have been turned into successful films and TV series. He has been Oscar-nominated twice for his screenplays, and his TV work has won three Emmys. His work has been translated into more than 40 languages. He lives in London.
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Praise for About a Boy

A very entertaining and endearing read

The Times

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