A Year of Doing Good
One Woman, One New Year's Resolution, 365 Good Deeds
Penguin
Paperback
: 03 Jan 2013
£7.99
Synopsis
Judith O'Reilly, author of the hugely popular blog and book Wife in the North embarks on a year long social experiment in the witty A Year of Doing Good.
Fed up of New Year's resolutions involving diets and exercise abandoned on January 2nd, Judith is attempting to be good. For one whole year.
She embarked on a mission to do one good deed every day. Some called it a social experiment. At times she called it madness.
Juggling family, friends and a variety of neighbours in the small Northumberland village she calls home, she recounts the ups, downs, moments of doubt and sheer bloody hard work of doing good.
From the small - babysitting a friend's child, clearing up her neighbour's dead mice and feeding her friendship cake Herman the German, to the slightly larger - trying to raise £10,000 for charity with her Jam Jar Army and teaching a severely handicapped child to write - she describes what she learns along the way: that no good deed is too small and that being good makes you happy. Well, most of the time.
'I howled with laughter, tears of recognition at every bloody page. My only problem with this book was choosing who to pass it on to first' Jenny Colgan, author of Amanda's Wedding on Wife in the North
Judith O'Reilly is a writer and journalist. Her first book Wife in the North was based on her blog of the same name and was a bestseller. Her second book, a novel, is living in a drawer. Her third book is this one. She is married with three children, and for one year she tried to be good.
Judith O'Reilly - A Year of Doing Good
Judith O'Reilly introduces her new book A Year of Doing Good and speaks of how grateful people were... most of the time!
Product details
Format :
Paperback
ISBN: 9780670921133
Size : 129 x 198mm
Pages : 320
Published : 03 Jan 2013
Publisher : Penguin
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A Year of Doing Good
One Woman, One New Year's Resolution, 365 Good Deeds
£7.99
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