About A Boy

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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.

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Thirty-six-year-old Londoner Will loves his life. Living carefree off the royalties of his dad's Christmas song, he's rich, unattached and has zero responsibilities - just the way he likes it.

But when Will meets Marcus, an awkward twelve-year-old who listens to Joni Mitchell and accidentally kills ducks with loaves of bread, an unlikely friendship starts to bloom.

Can this odd duo teach each another how to finally act their age?


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'A stunner of a novel. Utterly read-in-one-day, forget-where-you-are-on-the-tube-gripping'

'About the awful, hilarious, embarrassing places where children and adults meet, and Hornby has captured it with delightful precision'

'It takes a writer with real talent to make this work, and Hornby has it - in buckets'