Nick Hornby's 1998 novel, about 12-y.o Joni Mitchell-loving Marcus who's led a sheltered life in Cambridge. When his parents separate he and his mother move to London (real life), and he realizes just how little he knows about anything. He's bullied at school, his depressed mother attempts suicide, they meet rich single 36-y.o. Will. Marcus makes a friend, discovers who Nirvana are, and Kurt Cobain kills himself. At the end Marcus finds out what matters and what doesn't: at last he's "normal".