profound, worrying, hilarious, sophisticated, compulsive novel."- The Sunday Times (UK) "Daringly different."- New York Daily News "How to be good? How to be bloody marvelous more like."- The Mail on Sunday (UK) "Breezily hilarious and thought-provoking at the same time."- New York magazine "Seriousness spiked with humor.a page-turner."- The Washington Times "A thorny parable.very funny and shrewd."-, "Hornby is a writer who dares to be witty, intelligent and emotionally generous all at once."- The New York Times Book Review " A darkly funny and thought-provoking ride."- USA Today "A bitingly clever novel of ideas. profound, worrying, hilarious, sophisticated, compulsive novel."- The Sunday Times (UK) "Daringly different."- New York Daily News "How to be good? How to be bloody marvelous more like."- The Mail on Sunday (UK) "Breezily hilarious and thought-provoking at the same time."- New York magazine "Seriousness spiked with humor.a page-turner."- The Washington Times "A thorny parable.very funny and shrewd."-, "Hornby is a writer who dares to be witty, intelligent and emotionally generous all at once."- The New York Times Book Review "A darkly funny and thought-provoking ride."- USA Today "A bitingly clever novel of ideas. The abridged version is read by Frances Barber and the unabridged version is read by Clare Higgins."Hornby is a writer who dares to be witty, intelligent and emotionally generous all at once." - The New York Times Book Review, "Hornby is a writer who dares to be witty, intelligent and emotionally generous all at once."- The New York Times Book Review "A darkly funny and thought-provoking ride."- USA Today "A bitingly clever novel of ideas.
How to be Good is available on audiobook, both abridged and unabridged. The protagonist, Katie, briefly encounters a minor character named Dick whose description and attitude towards music are reminiscent of the character of the same name from Hornby's first novel, High Fidelity. The pair go about this by nominally convincing people to give their spare bedrooms to the homeless, but as their next scheme comes around, "reversal" (being good to people one has not been good to in the past), this proves to be fruitless and thus David gives up his strivings and his plans for a book on how to be good, appropriately named "How to be Good." The story begins when David stops being "The Angriest Man In Holloway" and begins to be "good" with the help of his spiritual healer, DJ GoodNews (who also shows up briefly in Hornby's A Long Way Down).
It centers on characters Katie Carr, a doctor, and her husband, David Grant. How to Be Good is a 2001 novel by the English writer Nick Hornby. Print ( Hardcover and Paperback) & Audio CD
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