2003 Longlist
How to be Good
ABOUT
THE BOOK
Katie Carr, doctor (and self-declared ‘good person’), has just had an affair. It’s not really her fault – she is, after all, married to David: angry, cynical, negative (though undeniably funny) and a real pain to live with. But then David meets DJ GoodNews, astonishingly effective faith healer and do-gooder of the unbearably smug kind. And now David is good. Too good, actually – ‘a liberal’s worst nightmare’, he starts to put theory into practice, giving away their kids’ toys, reaching out to the hopeless and homeless in a very personal and, for Katie, disturbing way. It seems to her that if charity begins at home, it may be time to move….
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Country
United Kingdom
Original Language
English
Publisher
Viking