How long does it take to read About a Boy?
About a Boy by Nick Hornby takes about 5 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 38 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1998. 307 pages, about 84,425 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 31 minutes |
The page count is the median across 62 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Nick Hornby's second bestselling novel is about sex, manliness and fatherhood. Will is thirty-six, comfortable and child-free. And he's discovered a brilliant new way of meeting women - through single-parent groups. Marcus is twelve and a little bitnerdish: he's got the kind of mother who made him listen to Joni Mitchell rather than Nirvana. Perhaps they can help each other out a little bit, and both can start to act their age.
Subjects: Divorced people, fiction, Fiction, coming of age, Fiction, humorous, Man-woman relationships, fiction, London (england), fiction, Fiction, humorous, general
