About a Boy
Author: Nick Hornby
Will is thirty-six but acts like a teenager. He reads the right magazines, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He’s also discovered a great way to score with women – at single parents’ groups, full of available mothers, all waiting for Mr Nice. That’s where he meets Marcus, the oldest twelve-year-old in the world. Marcus is a bit strange: he listens t….Read More
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