{"product_id":"9780241969878-about-a-boy","title":"About a Boy","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbout a Boy\u003c\/i\u003e is Nick Hornby's comic and heart-warming million-copy bestseller \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'How cool was Will Freeman?'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToo 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhich 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis astonishing novel, now a modern classic, was adapted for the acclaimed 2002 film \u003ci\u003eAbout A Boy\u003c\/i\u003e, starring Hugh Grant and Nicholas Hoult. Fans of \u003ci\u003eOne Day\u003c\/i\u003e by David Nicholls and \u003ci\u003eAny Human Heart\u003c\/i\u003e by William Boyd will devour this book, as will lovers of fiction everywhere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A stunner of a novel. Utterly read-in-one-day, forget-where-you-are-on-the-tube-gripping' \u003ci\u003eMarie Claire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'About the awful, hilarious, embarrassing places where children and adults meet, and Hornby has captured it with delightful precision' \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'It takes a writer with real talent to make this work, and Hornby has it - in buckets' \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55988503478646,"sku":"9780241969878","price":7.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_32226263.jpg?v=1753419437","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780241969878-about-a-boy","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}