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How to be Good

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'I am in a car park in Leeds when I tell my husband I don't want to be married to him any more. . . 'London GP Katie Carr always thought she was a good person.

With her husband David making a living as 'The Angriest Man in Holloway', she figured she could put up with anything.

Until, that is, David meets DJ Goodnews and becomes a good person too.

A far-too-good person who starts committing crimes of charity like taking in the homeless and giving their kids' toys away.

Suddenly Katie's feeling very bad about herself, and thinking that if charity begins at home, then maybe its time to move . . . PENGUIN STREET ART: Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd / Armadillo by William Boyd/ And The Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave / What a Carve Up by Jonathan Coe/ Americana by Don DeLillo/ Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris/ The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid/ The Believers by Zoe Heller/ How to Be Good by Nick Hornby/ Lights out for the Territory by Iain Sinclair

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Product Details
Penguin Books Ltd
0241965470 / 9780241965474
Paperback / softback
823.92
06/06/2013
United Kingdom
English
General
256 p.
20 cm
General (US: Trade) Learn More
Quiz No: 222629, Points 13.00, Book Level 5.60,
Upper Years - Key Stage 3 Learn More
Reprint. Originally published: 2001.