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