About a Boy

Paperback (30 Apr 2002)

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Publisher's Synopsis

A wise, hilarious novel from the beloved, award-winning author of Funny Girl, High Fidelityand A Long Way Down. 

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…

Book information

ISBN: 9781573229579
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Imprint: Riverhead Books
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 336
Weight: 268g
Height: 202mm
Width: 130mm
Spine width: 21mm