How to be Good, Nick Hornby
Condition: GOOD
Publisher: Penguin
Publication date: 2001
First published in 2001
Format: Paperback
Pages: 244
About the Book:
Katie Carr, doctor (and self-declared ‘good person’), has just had an affair. It’s not really her fault – she is, after all, married to David, angry, cynical, negative (though undeniably funny) and a real pain to live with. But the David meets DJ Goodnews, astonishingly effective faith healer and do-gooder of the unbearably smug kind. And now David is good. Too good, actually – ‘a liberal’s worst nightmare’, he starts to put theory into practice, giving away their kids toys, reaching out to the hopeless and homeless in a very personal and, for Katie, disturbing way. It seems to her that if charity begins at home, it may be time to move. . .
