num_pages: 4
description: According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's a doctor, after all, and doctors are decent people, and on top of that, her husband David is the self-styled Angriest Man in Holloway. When David suddenly becomes good, however - properly, maddeningly, give-away-all-his-money good - Katie's sums no longer add up and she is forced to ask herself some very hard questions...Nick Hornby's brilliant new novel offers a painfully funny account of modern marriage and parenthood and asks that most difficult of what does it mean to be good?
language: English
title: How to Be Good
titlecomplete: How to Be Good
genres: Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Literature, Comedy, Adult, British Literature, Fiction, Contemporary, Humor
ratings_count: 55798
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Booker Prize
category: Longlist
publisher: Gardners Books