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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…
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About a Boy, Nick Hornby
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- Released
- 1999
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- Title
- About a Boy
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Nick Hornby
- Publisher
- Riverhead
- Released
- 1999
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 1573227331
- ISBN13
- 9781573227339
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Humor, Music Theme, Love, Family, Contemporary Fiction, Friendship, British Literature, England, Great Britain, English Literature, Comedies, Adapted for Film, Coming Of Age, London, Teens, Suicide, Depression, Bullying, Responsibility, Outsider, Single Parents, Nirvana
- First published
- 1998
- Original title
- About a Boy
- Rating
- 3.8 out of 5
- Description
- 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…