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

Formats & editions
Paperback
2 Jan 2014
EBook
2 Jan 2001
Audiobook
25 Feb 2016
Paperback
29 Jul 2021
Paperback
27 Jun 2002
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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
Categories:

About the author

Nick Hornby

Nick Hornby was born in 1957. He is the author of five novels, High Fidelity, About a Boy, How To Be Good, A Long Way Down (shortlisted for the Whitbread Award) and Slam; three works of non-fiction, Fever Pitch (winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award), 31 Songs (shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award) and The Complete Polysyllabic Spree; and a Pocket Penguin book of short stories, Otherwise Pandemonium.

Nick Hornby lives and works in Highbury, north London.

Also by Nick Hornby

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Just Like You
A Long Way Down
Funny Girl
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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