About a Boy 1st January 1970
Set in London in the 90s, this is Hornby at full throttle. Will is in his mid 30s, comfortably well off and no children by choice. His discovery that he can meet women through single-parent groups allows him access...
Set in London in the 90s, this is Hornby at full throttle. Will is in his mid 30s, comfortably well off and no children by choice. His discovery that he can meet women through single-parent groups allows him access...
Queenie Bligh has given up waiting for her husband Bernard to come back from his service in the Second World War, and to make ends meet has let rooms in her house out to immigrants from Jamaica, among them...
Several characters and their lives in one parallel week in December, in the lead up to Christmas, and how their paths cross. Essentially love is all around, in all its facets.
Benjamin Weaver, a Jew and an ex-boxer, is an outsider in eighteenth-century London, tracking down debtors and felons for aristocratic clients. The son of a wealthy stock trader, he lives estranged from his family-until he is asked to investigate...
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