How To Be Good

Nick Hornby

Andrew had really enjoyed this, an improvement on "About A Boy". A modern fable about what it means to be 'good' and how this effects the people around you if you try. Some very good characters, especially the children. Andrew didn't have any problem with the narrative being written from a woman's point of view (as some people have). Recommended.
Andrew 23/09/01

Reviews made much of the fact that Hornby writes in the first person as a woman but I didn't find this significant. A strange book - very funny at first, a bit boring in the middle and then quite serious and thought provoking. Enjoyed the children's reaction to their father being 'good'. Very convincing. Recommended.
Jean 28/10/01

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