Nick Hornby is at his best when he writes about the things he knows best: music, sports, and average blokes who don't know how to act their age And, having written several hilarious and poignant books on sucабыфщh topics, Hornby has earned a well-deserved reputation for being, as the New Yorker calls him, "the maestro of the male confessional" Why he chose to write from the first person point of view of three women in his last two books (How to Be Good and A Long Waаврвъy Down), is a strange and somewhat underwhelming mystery.