About a Boy is Nick Hornby's comic and heart-warming million-copy bestseller ' How cool was Will Freeman?'Too cool! At thirty-six, he's as hip as a teenager. He's single, child-free, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to we ar. He's also found a great way to score with women: attend single parents' grou ps full of available (and grateful) mothers, all hoping to meet a Nice Guy.Whi ch is how Will meets Marcus, the oldest twelve-year-old on the planet. Marcus is a bit strange: he listens to Joni Mitchell and Mozart, looks after his mum and has never owned a pair of trainers. But Marcus latches on to Will - and won't le t go. Can Will teach Marcus how to grow up cool? And can Marcus help Will just t o grow up?This astonishing novel, now a modern classic, was adapted for the ac claimed 2002 film About A Boy, starring Hugh Grant and Nicholas Hoult. Fans of O ne Day by David Nicholls and Any Human Heart by William Boyd will devour this bo ok, as will lovers of fiction everywhere.'A stunner of a novel. Utterly read-i n-one-day, forget-where-you-are-on-the-tube-gripping' Marie Claire'About the a wful, 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