About a Boy

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…apart from those of Connolly or Amis. Will's friendship with Marcus - at first grudging, then resigned, and finally desperate - is both funny and touching. If About a Boy lacks anything, it is incident - like 'High Fidelity', this is a book where nothing much happens except people getting on with their lives. How Will Freeman gets on with his if he gets one at all is what About a Boy is all about.