With her husband David making a living as The Angriest Man in Holloway, she figured she could. 'The writing is so funny, and the set-pieces so brilliant. London GP Katie Carr always thought she was a good person. The abridged, downloadable audiobook edition of How to Be Good, Nick Hornbys No.1 bestseller in the UK and Ireland. Hornby's prose is artful and effortless, his spiky wit as razored as a number-two cut' Independent 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. 'It does exactly what it says on the cover. How to Be Good is a 2001 novel by the English writer Nick Hornby. 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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