![]() ![]() Like all of us, she says, she had fantasies about being a divorcee before she got engaged. It is a personal inferno that runs over two pages and includes Ted Hughes, Mark Hughes, Maggie Smith, The Smiths, all contemporary playwrights, Homer, Virgil, Coleridge, Keats, Madonna, the Pope, as well as 'anyone was at school or college with who is now making a name for themselves in the fields of journalism, broadcasting or the arts'. At one point she compiles a memorable list of all the people David has dismissed as 'talentless, overrated, or simply wankers'. ![]() Her husband's reflexive loathing has, over the years, bleached all the colour from Katie's life, and she hates him for it. David is genetically cynical, gets paid to be outraged about old people on buses and dog owners in playgrounds. Katie is married to David, who writes a newspaper column headed 'The Angriest Man in Holloway'. The first section of this book the terrain is strictly, artfully, full of emotional clichés. As a result of this wilful wrong turning in a tired, habitual conversation, all the certainties of her life are replaced by doubts. Katie is away on a conference in Leeds, surreptitiously sleeping with an acquaintance, when she shocks herself by asking her husband for a divorce on her cellphone. She views her world with self-deprecating comedy and restive neurosis. ![]() ![]() How To Be Good is told by Katie Carr, a GP from north London. ![]()
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