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About A Boy by Hornby, Nick is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is About A Boy about?
A wise, hilarious novel from the beloved, award-winning author of Dickens and Prince, Funny Girl and High Fidelity Will Freeman may have discovered the key to dating success: If the simple fact that they were single mothers meant that gorgeous women – women who would not ordinarily look twice a Will – might not only be willing, but enthusiastic about dating him, then he was really onto something. Single mothers – bright, attractive, available women – thousands of them, were all over London. He just had to find them. SPAT: Single Parents – Alone Together. It was a brilliant plan. And Will wasn't going to let the fact that he didn't have a child himself hold him back. A fictional two-year-old named Ned wouldn't be the first thing he'd invented. And it seems to go quite well at first, until he meets an actual twelve-year-old named Marcus, who is more than Will bargained for...
Who reads About A Boy?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Hornby, Nick
- Publisher
- New York: Riverhead Books
- Published
- 1998
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781573229579
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Humor
- Rating
- 3.79 / 5 (405 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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