Nick Hornby

About a boy

Will Freeman, 36 år, ønsker seg ikke barn. Men han har overhode ikke noe i mot single mødre, i hvertfall ikke Angie. Han melder seg inn i EFAS (Enslige Foreldre - Alene Sammen) og dikter opp en to år gammel sønn. Så kommer 12 år gamle Marcus inn i bildet. Han føler seg utenfor på skolen, og foreldrene har nettopp gått fra hverandre. En dag møtes Marcus og Will, og Marcus forstår at Will har peiling på en god del mer enn mange andre voksne. Dette vil han gjerne utnytte, men spørsmålet er om Will ønsker å være med på laget.

Will Freeman wants an easy life with no responsibilities. But then he meets Marcus - an unusual twelve year old boy with serious problems. About a Boy is a modern classic - a very funny story about a very serious subject: love. It's also a popular movie starring Hugh Grant.

About a Boy

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 wear. He's also found a great way to score with women: attend single parents' groups full of available (and grateful) mothers, all hoping to meet a Nice Guy.Which 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 let go. Can Will teach Marcus how to grow up cool? And can Marcus help Will just to grow up?This astonishing novel, now a modern classic, was adapted for the acclaimed 2002 film About A Boy, starring Hugh Grant and Nicholas Hoult. Fans of One Day by David Nicholls and Any Human Heart by William Boyd will devour this book, as will lovers of fiction everywhere.'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