Book Review: About a Boy by Nick Hornby

My rating: 4/5 stars

I’d seen (and loved) this film years ago, but never read the book. I was glad to discover the film had been so faithful to this heartwarming novel. It’s laugh-out-loud funny, and often sad, without quite making it to tragic, with so much real life on the page. Switching narrators between a quirky twelve-year-old boy and an overgrown thirty-six-year-old teenager works really well, and Hornby draws the characters so precisely and brilliantly. This should be the textbook for emotional growth and characters changing each other.

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