# How to be Good

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- Book: [How to be Good](https://www.bookquiver.com/nick-hornby/how-to-be-good) ([How to be Good.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nick-hornby/how-to-be-good.md))
- Authors: [Nick Hornby](https://www.bookquiver.com/nick-hornby)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4192-528-8
- Published: 2005-05-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## 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. But when David suddenly becomes good - 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, a No. 1 bestseller in the UK and Ireland, offers a painfully funny account of modern marriage and parenthood, and asks that most difficult of questions: what does it mean to be good?