I've come to the conclusion that it's a myth that there's this huge divide between men and women. If you say, 'Yes, I found it hard,' people will say, 'Yeah, and it shows.' And if you say 'No', people say, 'Well, it should have been a bit harder.' But I didn't find it particularly hard. NH: I hate that question, because either Yes or No seems an inappropriate answer. Obs: Your first-person narrator is a woman, Dr Katie Carr. I've been bombarded with offers of help - all sorts of spiritual healers, homeopaths - and with letters saying: 'If you put your son's head in a bucket with a cabbage, he'll be cured.' The spiritual conversion comes from my experiences over the last few years with my son, Danny, who's autistic. 'The writing is so funny, and the set-pieces so brilliant. Hornby's prose is artful and effortless, his spiky wit as razored as a number-two cut' Independent 'It does exactly what it says on the cover. How to be Good? How to be bloody marvellous, more like' Mail on Sunday 'Pins you in your armchair and won't let go. This laugh-out-loud novel, from the bestselling author of About a Boy and High Fidelity, will have you gripped from start to finish and will appeal to fans of David Nicholls and Jonathan Coe, as well as readers in need of a moral compass everywhere. Suddenly Katie's feeling very bad about herself, and thinking that if charity begins at home, then maybe it's time to move. A far-too-good person who starts committing crimes of charity like taking in the homeless and giving their kids' toys away. Until, that is, David meets DJ Goodnews and becomes a good person too. With her husband David making a living as 'The Angriest Man in Holloway', she figured she could put up with anything. London GP Katie Carr always thought she was a good person. 'I am in a car park in Leeds when I tell my husband I don't want to be married to him any more. 'Hilarious, sophisticated, compulsive' The Times
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