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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 parent's 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. 'Such a good read' Maggie Gee, Daily Telegraph 'The portrait of Marcus's claustrophobic home life, his troubles at school and general bewilderment at the behaviour of adults is written with great skill, indeed with a sympathetic genius that more self-conscious writers will envy ' Henry Porter, Daily Mail 'It takes a writer with real talent to make this work, and Hornby has it - in buckets' Literary Review 'A very entertaining and, at times endearing, read' Jane Dowle, The Times 'A stunner of a novel ... Utterly read-in-one-day, forget-where-you-are-on-the-tube gripping' Marie Claire
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