How to be Good

Nick Hornby

ISBN: 9780241950180
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Edition: Re-issue
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According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's a doctor, and on top of that, her husband David is the self-styled Angriest Man in Holloway. But when David suddenly becomes good - properly give-away-all-his-money good - Katie's sums no longer add up and she is forced to ask herself some very hard questions.

According to her own complex 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 self-styled Angriest Man in Holloway. But when David suddenly becomes good - properly, maddeningly, give-away-all-his-money good - Katie's sums no longer add up, and she is forced to ask herself some very hard questions. Nick Hornby's brilliant new novel, a number 1 bestseller in the UK and Ireland, offers a painfully funny account of modern marriage and parenthood, and asks that most difficult of questions: what does it mean to be good?

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