# About a Boy

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- Book: [About a Boy](https://www.bookquiver.com/nick-hornby/about-a-boy) ([About a Boy.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nick-hornby/about-a-boy.md))
- Authors: [Nick Hornby](https://www.bookquiver.com/nick-hornby)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4192-435-9
- Published: 2005-05-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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.