The Good Society

Grounded in practical, tried-and-tested solutions from across the world, The Good Society offers real hope that the problems we face are not insurmountable

Jonathan Aldred, author of License To Be Bad

This is what we need. A clear roadmap that makes the case for how things can be better in achievable and realistic ways

Sammy Wright, author of Exam Nation

An electrifying book: audacious in its range, blistering in its analysis and yet warm and immensely readable

Polly Morland, author of A Fortunate Woman

Genuinely transformative, grounded in rigorous evidence and focused on what really matters. A powerful and deeply humane vision

Daniel Chandler, author of Free and Equal

Kate Pickett brings much needed intellect, expertise, experience and empathy to the urgent challenges now facing our society

Melissa Benn

The country desperately needs a new lodestar of hope. The Good Society is the book we have been waiting for

Neal Lawson, Director of Compass

Optimistic and realistic - a brilliant personal account of what a lifetime of world-leading research on health and well-being shows us is possible

Danny Dorling, author of The Next Crisis

Packed with vision, hope and a practical plan – just what these times are crying out for

Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics

Building on a long, distinguished career as a researcher on the links between ill-health and inequalities, Kate Pickett has brought the threads together in an elegant call for a Good Society

Guy Standing, author of The Politics of Time