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  • Published: 27 February 2013
  • ISBN: 9780670921133
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $24.00
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A Year Of Doing Good





How one woman tried to be a better person - and almost succeeded

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.

Judith 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.

  • Published: 27 February 2013
  • ISBN: 9780670921133
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $24.00
Categories:

About the author

Judith O'Reilly

Judith O'Reilly, a journalist and mother of three children, was persuaded to move from London to Northumberland by her husband in 2005. She started a blog, wifeinthenorth.com, in November 2006, which quickly picked up fans around the world with its witty tales of family and country life.

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Praise for A Year Of Doing Good

Banish January blues with A Year of Doing Good by Judith O'Reilly who resolved to do one good turn day. . . utterly uplifting

Fanny Blake, Woman & Home

A funny, uplifting and admirable book

Observer

Fizzing with energy Judith's writing is open-hearted and funny. . . though not a guide to doing good, Judith's story may inspire you to do a little more for others this year

Express

Glorious sincerity. . .the admiring accounts of others' lives, the detailing of the deeds gladly done or furiously resented, the unending chaos of family life - all are rendered honestly, colourfully and occasionally hilariously

Lucy Mangan, Sunday Times

A truly inspirational book with which to begin a New Year . . . witty and moving

National Library of Scotland

A Year of Doing Good inspires the reader with the day-to-day journey of meaning, gratification and joy that comes from contributing to the lives of others in so many creative ways. For those who want to put "do unto others" in the centre of their lives and reap the unexpected benefits of happiness and health, this is the book for you. Elegantly written, the words jump off the page.

Stephen G. Post, PhD, author of, The Hidden Gifts of Helping