I'm preparing a book report about the book "about a boy" by "Nick Hornby". I chose this book because I was really interested in the film, which I saw on TV.
In this posting I would like to give you a little preview what the book is about. I hope you'll get interested and read it. I think it is dead good.
Well, I am going to start with giving you some informations about the author.
Nick Hornby was born in 1957 in Redhill, Surrey, which is in England. And lives with his wife and his son in the north of London. He studied english literature at Cambridge. He worked as a teacher and a journalist. Now I am going to tell you about his most famous books: 1992 his first book called "Fever Pitch" appeared. 1995 the book "High Fidelity" appeared, which was filmed. 1998 the book, which I present "About a boy" appeared and 2001 "How to be good".

Now something about the book:

The main characters in this book are a 36-year old man, which is called Will Freeman and a 12-year old boy called Marcus.

This book is about the serious problems which Marcus has got. He used to live with his mother and the friend of his mother in London. But they had an argument so Marcus and his mother, Fiona moved to Cambridge. Will Freeman is a man, who need not to work because he has got a lot of money from his father, which he made with a christmas song. Will is always looking for young women, but if the relationship is getting serious he ends it. One day he met Marcus' mother and Marcus. He helped Marcus with his problems and he bought him for example new clothes and shoes. One day Will fell in love with a single mother called Fiona and he really loves her because he didn't want to lose her. And during Will is dating Fiona Marcus also fell in Love with a schoolmate called Ellie with her he goes to Cambridge by bus one time and there they drank alcohol so the police got them and Ellie wanted to protect Marcus.

If you want to know more about the book you can borrow it from me or you can buy it.

I can only recommend it. ;-)