'Vintage Nick Hornby. Very funny and very clever, and packed with wit and brilliance' Spectator

Katie Carr, doctor (and self-declared 'good person'), has just had an affair. It's really not her fault - she is, after all, married to David: angry, cynical, negative (though undeniably funny) and a real pain to live with. But then 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...

'Pins you in your armchair and won't let you go. Eating, drinking, bathing - all took second place while I was reading the book. How to be Good? How to be bloody marvellous, more like' Mail on Sunday

'The writing is so funny, and the set-pieces so brilliant ... This is Hornby's best book since Fever Pitch' Lynne Truss, The Times

'A bitingly clever novel of ideas, on a subject almost nobody else has written about - how would a totally good person get on in the modern world?' John Carey, Sunday Times

'I loved this book' Julie Burchil, Mail on Sunday

 
I bought and listened to the audio book of this novel a few months ago, and absolutely loved it. It was so original, and managed to be both tender and wickedly cutting. When I saw this book as part of three Hornby novels on sale I thought I should buy it, and enjoy it in it's unabridged wonderfulness.