George Crawley has finally got his life running along satisfyingly straight lines. Having made a success of his career and saved his faltering marriage, he is secure in the belief that he is master of his own destiny. Then comes the tragic blow - fate presents him with an apparently insoluble problem. Except that the word "insoluble" just isn't part of this man's vocabulary. George will stop at nothing - nothing - to get his life back on the rails again.
'Goodness' negotiates between tragedy and farce with unerring dexterity, and Parks pins down his characters with a quiet, but dreadfully accurate prose then peels bare their duplicities, shames, fears and brutal impulses.
An economical, original, arresting and intelligent book.
