How to Be Good

THE MILLION-COPY NO.1 BESTSELLER A painfully funny account of modern marriage and parenthood that asks the question: what does it mean to be good? 'Enormously powerful' Guardian 'Hilarious, sophisticated, compulsive' The Times ___________________ Are... Read more

THE MILLION-COPY NO.1 BESTSELLER A painfully funny account of modern marriage and parenthood that asks the question: what does it mean to be good? 'Enormously powerful' Guardian 'Hilarious, sophisticated, compulsive' The Times ___________________ Are you a good person? London GP Katie Carr always thought she was. 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 . . . Pre-order Nick Hornby's tender and brutally funny new novel Just Like You now! '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 Less