How to Be Good

Author: Nick Hornby

According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She’s a doctor and 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…..Read More

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