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

“A darkly funny and thought-provoking ride…How to Be Good gleefully distorts what can happen to a relationship when one partner changes and the other must accept it or take a new path. The book examines what it means to be good to oneself, one’s family and the world at large. While this could be sanctimonious fare, Hornby infuses it with wit and a sense of the absurd.”
—USA Today

“This is a surprising novel of ideas that balances spiritual, political and familial questions, and it’s an exciting departure for a quietly excellent writer.”
—People

“Good gives Hornby a new perch beyond rating records and relationships: the self-depreciating, self-doubting liberal, repelled by lockstep liberalism yet distrustful of the locked-in certitude of the right…Hornby reaches deeper, away from pat, albeit funny, lines, and stakes new literary territory.”
—The Boston Globe

“Mr. Hornby’s high-octane mixture of seriousness spiked with humor generates a powerful narrative drive that makes How to Be Good a page-turner.”
—Washington Times

“Nick Hornby’s writing is not full of itself, but candidly introspective; not facetious, but hilarious; not unkind and terrible, but their opposites, generous and terrific…How to Be Good will make the happily coupled clutch their sweethearts to their bosoms and the single turn down dates with a shudder.”
—Newsday (New York)

“An ambitious example of postmodern literature at its most entertaining.”
—The Seattle Times

“The pleasure of Hornby’s amiably dyspeptic fiction lies in his sharp eye for the absurdities of contemporary culture…[He] forces you to think about the tense bourgeois minuet between self-interest and morality, about the difference between applauding and doing good works…The result is a farce that manages to be breezily hilarious and thought-provoking at the same time.”
—New York