Book description
How to be Good is Nick Hornby's hilarious bestselling
novel on life, love and charity
'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 its
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.
'Pins you in your armchair ad 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
Nick Hornby has captivated readers and achieved widespread critical
acclaim for his comic, well-observed novels About a Boy, A
Long Way Down, Juliet, Naked, Slam and High
Fidelity. 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 is the author of three previous
books, FEVER PITCH, HIGH FIDELITY and ABOUT A BOY, all international
bestsellers and all available in Penguin. He has also edited two
anthologies, SPEAKING WITH THE ANGEL and MY FAVOURITE YEAR. He is the
pop music critic for the New Yorker, and in 1999 was awarded the E.
M.Forster award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives
and works in Highbury, North London.
