"A stunner of a novel. Utterly read-in-one-day, forget-where-you-are-on-the-tube-gripping". (Marie Claire). "About the awful, hilarious, embarrassing places where children and adults meet, and Hornby has captured it with delightful precision". ("Irish Times"). "It takes a writer with real talent to make this work, and Hornby has it - in buckets". ("Literary Review"). Nick Hornby has captivated readers and achieved widespread critical acclaim for his comic, well-observed novels "High Fidelity", "How to be Good", "A Long Way Down" (shortlisted for the Whitbread Award), "Slam and Juliet", "Naked". His three works of non-fiction, "31 Songs" (shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award), "Fever Pitch" (winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award) and "The Complete Polysyllabic Spree" are also available from "Penguin".

Nick Hornby was born in 1957 and worked as a teacher before becoming a full-time writer. He is the author of six novels: High Fidelity, About a Boy, How to be Good, A Long Way Down, Slam (a YA novel) and Juliet, Naked; three works of non-fiction: Fever Pitch, 31 Songs and The Complete Polysyllabic Spree; and a book of short stories, Otherwise Pandemonium. He has also written the screenplay for two films: Fever Pitch and An Education. He lives in north London.