About a Boy

About a Boy

by Nick Hornby
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 05/05/2005

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'A very entertaining and endearing read' The Times

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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?


Hugely funny and equally heartfelt, Nick Hornby's classic proves you're never too old to grow up. Perfect for fans of David Nicholls and Mike Gayle.

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'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

ISBN:
9780141924359
9780141924359
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
05-05-2005
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
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.

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