Summary and Reviews of How To Be Good by Nick Hornby

Media Reviews

The New York Times Book Review Hornby is a writer who dares to be witty, intelligent, and emotionally generous all at once.

Daily Telegraph Hornby's aim is true ... like all good comic writers, Hornby uses jokes to confront more deeply, not side-step

New Statesman ...a good, dark, espresso-strength comedy that nobody else could have written.

Observer He should write for England

The Independent Hornby's prose is artful and effortless, his spiky wit as razored as a number-two cut ... his dialogue sings with empathy for the discordant voices of ordinary, struggling humanity.

The Mail on Sunday How to be Good? How to be bloody marvelous more like.

The Mail on Sunday - Christopher Bray Nick Hornby's latest novel pins you in your armchair and won't let go. Eating, drinking, bathing…all took second place while I was reading this book.

The Sunday Times ...a bitingly clever novel of ideas [How to be Good] leaves you not knowing whether to laugh or cry ... [a] profound, worrying, hilarious, sophisticated, compulsive novel.

Hello Magazine Perceptive and funny, this is a classic slice of Hornby's humanity.

Kirkus Reviews Another delightful comedy from Hornby ... Hornby's quick eye and nimble observational style nail everyone's vanity.

Library Journal For his third novel after the male-sympathetic High Fidelity and About a Boy, Hornby hasn't merely gotten in touch with his feminine side--- more importantly, via Katie he harrowingly portrays how ambivalence attacks the heart like a virus at mid-life..... But fear not, old-school Hornby fans, for this departure is expertly tempered with flecks of humor and pop culture references.