You Don't Have To Be Good - Couverture souple

Bea is in her late forties, with a dead-end job at the council, an unfaithful husband and no children. She is solid, dependable, invisible. Always there to look after her high flying sister Katherine's two small children. Then one morning, Bea disappears.

Her husband is suspected of murder, Katherine begins to unravel, unable to function without the sister she's always taken for granted, and slowly Bea's loved ones discover that things don't always turn out as they might have liked. You Don't have to be Good is a sharp, clever look at what happens when a woman reaches the point where being good is just no longer an option.

Broadbent's writing is funny and spry, and her characters nicely unconventional' Independent

Sometimes doing the right thing ins't an option.

In her late forties, in a stalled marriage and emailed half to death at work, solid, dependable, sensible Bea notices that she is starting to disappear. One morning on her way to work she vanishes completely.

Her husband is suspected of murder, high-flying sister Katherine starts to unravel and Katherine's teenage children, Laura and Adrian - brilliant, difficult, and wise - struggle to solve the mystery of their beloved aunt's disappearance.

Touching and funny, You Don't have to be Good is a sharp and clever look at what happens when a woman reaches the point where being good is no longer an option.