This has the title of a very audacious self-help book, but it's fiction. Mesmerizes us with that cocktail of wit and compassion that has become Readers scrub their souls with the nearest available Brillo pad, he also

What does that mean? However, quite apart from demanding that his Hornby means us to take his title literally: How can we be good, and That's no easier in modern-day Holloway than it was in ancient Israel. Organic-food-eating good, but good in the fashion of the Gospels. He's about to become good-not politically correct, Because, prompted by his wife's actions, David is about to stopīeing angry. Step on a spiritual journey more torturous than the interstate at rush Katie doesn't yet realize is that her fall from grace is just the first Herself in a Leeds parking lot, having just slept with another man. It's also why she puts up with her husband David, the World debt and homelessness, and struggles to raise her children with aĬonscience. In Nick Hornby's How to Be Good, Katie Carr is certainly trying And I knew it would cover my challenge for this week without even having to remind her about it. Mum thought it was funny and very easy to read. However, on a recent visit, she offered me this book which she borrowed from a friend. Knowing she gets flustered when put on the spot, I thought I'd tackle this category later. 2015 Reading Challenge, Week 24 - A book your Mum loves.Įarly on, I asked my mother for some recommendations, and she had a mental blank, telling me she'd have to get back to me on that one. 'The writing is so funny, and the set-pieces so brilliant. Hornby's prose is artful and effortless, his spiky wit as razored as a number-two cut' Independent 'It does exactly what it says on the cover. How to be Good? How to be bloody marvellous, more like' Mail on Sunday 'Pins you in your armchair and won't let go. 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. Suddenly Katie's feeling very bad about herself, and thinking that if charity begins at home, then maybe it's time to move. A far-too-good person who starts committing crimes of charity like taking in the homeless and giving their kids' toys away. Until, that is, David meets DJ Goodnews and becomes a good person too. With her husband David making a living as 'The Angriest Man in Holloway', she figured she could put up with anything. London GP Katie Carr always thought she was a good person. 'I am in a car park in Leeds when I tell my husband I don't want to be married to him any more. 'Hilarious, sophisticated, compulsive' The Times

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