Ben Brooks The Greatest Possible Good : Shortlisted for the Sunday Times

How much should one person give to make the world a better place?How much can one family take?The hilarious, thoughtprovoking new novel from the Somerset Maugham and British Book Awardwinning Ben BrooksBrooks is a frighteningly young talent. Tim KeyI love Ben Brooks. Matt HaigYoull not forget the Candlewicks once you meet them! This splendid, wry satire is about a wealthy family, selfimportant and confident in their morality, whose blithe and bumptious existences are thrown into disarray when their father clandestinely decides to give all their money to charity, and so (in their opinions) completely destroys their lives. Droll and alltooreal. LitHubA warmhearted tragicomedy about what it means to live a good life. People MagazineA sharpwitted tragicomedy about money, morality, and a family teetering on the brink. A splendidly funny novel. Jenny Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Pineapple Street Id like you to imagine that youre walking to work one day and you come upon a child drowning in a pool of water. But imagine that someone refused to jump in after the child on the grounds that it would ruin his threehundredpound pair of John Lobb loafers. Wed consider them utterly immoral, would we not?Arthur Candlewick spends three days in a disused mineshaft with only his sons drug stash, a book on the concept of effective altruism and a bottle of mediumpriced Bordeaux for company. When he emerges, he has made the lifechanging decision to become a good man. Deciding to... | Ben Brooks The Greatest Possible Good : Shortlisted for the Sunday Times