Nick Hornby

About a Boy

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Will is thirty-six but acts like a teenager. Single, child-free and still feeling cool, 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 (and grateful) mothers, all waiting for Mr Nice Guy. That’s where he meets Marcus, the oldest twelve-year-old in the world. Marcus is a bit strange: he listens to Joni Mitchell and Mozart, he looks after his Mum and he’s never even owned a pair of trainers. Perhaps if Will can teach Marcus how to be a kid, Marcus can help Will grow up — and they can both start to act their age …
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  • Valeriahas quoted2 years ago
    She laughed. ‘That’s what life is, Marcus. You have to work out what you believe in, and then you have to stick to it. It’s hard, but it’s not unfair. And at least it’s easy to understand.’

    There was something wrong with this
  • Valeriahas quoted2 years ago
    Why aren’t I old enough now?
  • Valeriahas quoted2 years ago
    I know what I’m doing.’

    Marcus had never thought of his mother in that way before, as someone who knew what she was doing. He had never thought that she didn’t have a clue either;

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