Beard's second Hornby: About a Boy
Coach Beard (Brendan Hunt)
Beard is reading About a Boy, cover turned toward camera, while he watches Nate bully Colin. Book Riot and the Coach Beard's Book Club podcast both place it in Headspace. Nick Hornby, twice in three episodes, so somebody in the writers' room has a favorite.
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The book
About a Boy
Hornby's 1998 novel follows Will, a grown man living off royalties from his late father's Christmas song, until a kid makes him grow up. The 2002 film had Hugh Grant. Beard is reading about a man-child while a man-child pushes Colin around in front of him.
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