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How to be Good

By: Nick Hornby
Narrated by: Frances Barber
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The abridged, downloadable audiobook edition of How to Be Good, Nick Hornby's No.1 bestseller in the UK and Ireland. Read by the actress Frances Barber.

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.

How to Be Good offers a painfully funny account of modern marriage and parenthood, and asks that most difficult of questions: what does it mean to be good?

©2001 Nick Hornby; (P)2001 Penguin Books Ltd Literature & Fiction Marriage Funny Comedy
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After the stellar The Long Way Down, Someone like You, this raises a few laughs.

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