How to be Good

Hornby, Nick

£8.99

According to her own moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She’s a doctor, after all, and doctors are decent people, and on top of that, her husband David is the ‘Angriest Man’ in Holloway. But when David suddenly becomes good, Katie’s sums no longer add up, and she is forced to ask herself some hard questions.

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Publish Date: 02/01/2014

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THE MILLION-COPY NO.1 BESTSELLER

‘Enormously powerful’
Guardian

‘Hilarious, sophisticated, compulsive’ The Times
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‘I am in a car park in Leeds when I tell my husband I don’t want to be married to him any more. . . ‘

London GP Katie Carr always thought she was a good person. With her husband David making a living as ‘The Angriest Man in Holloway’, she figured she could put up with anything. Until, that is, David meets DJ Goodnews and becomes a good person too. A far-too-good person who starts committing crimes of charity like taking in the homeless and giving their kids’ toys away. Suddenly Katie’s feeling very bad about herself, and thinking that if charity begins at home, then maybe it’s time to move. . .

This laugh-out-loud novel, from the bestselling author of About a Boy and High Fidelity, will have you gripped from start to finish and will appeal to fans of David Nicholls and Jonathan Coe, as well as readers in need of a moral compass everywhere.
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‘Pins you in your armchair and won’t let go . . . How to be Good? How to be bloody marvellous, more like’ Mail on Sunday

‘It does exactly what it says on the cover. Hornby’s prose is artful and effortless, his spiky wit as razored as a number-two cut’ Independent

‘The writing is so funny, and the set-pieces so brilliant . . . Hornby’s best book since Fever Pitch’ Lynn Truss, The Times

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Weight 182 g
Dimensions 198 × 130 × 15 mm
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Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

243

Language

English

Edition

Reprint

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K