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A review by hayleybeale
How to Be Good by Nick Hornby
3.0
Such an interesting premise, but the author doesn't quite know where to take it and it sort of fizzles out.
Katie Carr is having an affair and is bored with her marriage to David aka "The Angriest Man in Holloway." But David has a spiritual conversion after meeting DJ GoodNews and wants to be a good person, which means giving away their possessions and offering their spare room to a homeless young man. But Katie is maddened by David's unironic crusade to be good while also knowing she's on the wrong side.
This is a major tilt at comfortable middle class liberals who don't walk the talk but doesn't really reach a conclusion other than, yes, we should be good but, for some reason, we can't manage it.
Katie Carr is having an affair and is bored with her marriage to David aka "The Angriest Man in Holloway." But David has a spiritual conversion after meeting DJ GoodNews and wants to be a good person, which means giving away their possessions and offering their spare room to a homeless young man. But Katie is maddened by David's unironic crusade to be good while also knowing she's on the wrong side.
This is a major tilt at comfortable middle class liberals who don't walk the talk but doesn't really reach a conclusion other than, yes, we should be good but, for some reason, we can't manage it.