How to be Good

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 244, [4 (blank)]. Green cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine; scarlet endpapers.

Signed by Author to title-page.

Publishers' Weekly 'Notable Fiction' of 2001. Longlisted for the 2001 Man Booker Prize. Awarded the 1999 E.M. Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts & Letters. In his third novel, Nick Hornby, whom The New Yorker called 'the maestro of the male confessional,' has reinvented himself as Katie – the consummate liberal, urban mom – a doctor from North London whose world is being turned on its ear by the outrageous spiritual transformation of her husband, David.

"Another delightful comedy from Hornby (High Fidelity, 1995, etc.), this one about a woman whose plans to divorce her crabby husband are sidetracked by his sudden, if loony, embrace of saintliness." –Kirkus Reviews