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Year Of Doing Good
Judith OReilly 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 Years 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 friends child clearing up her neighbours dead mice and feeding her friendship cake Herman the German to the slightly larger - trying to raise
GBP10 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. 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 by Stephen G. Post PhD author of "The Hidden Gifts of Helping". "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 "Amandas Wedding on Wife in the North"). Judith OReilly 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."
GBP10 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. 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 by Stephen G. Post PhD author of "The Hidden Gifts of Helping". "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 "Amandas Wedding on Wife in the North"). Judith OReilly 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."
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