The Greatest Possible Good

Name: The Greatest Possible Good
Author: Ben Brooks
ISBN: 9781398542228

by Ben Brooks

ISBN: 9781398542228

Published: 2025-07-17

Fiction

The hilarious, thought-provoking new novel from the Somerset Maugham and British Book Award-winning Ben Brooks. 'Brooks is a frighteningly young talent.' Tim Key 'I love Ben Brooks.' Matt Haig How much should one person give to make the world a better place? How much can one family take? "I'd like you to imagine that you're 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 three-hundred-pound pair of John Lobb loafers. We'd consider them utterly immoral, would we not?' Arthur Candlewick spends three days in a disused mineshaft with only his son's drug stash, a book on the concept of 'effective altruism' and a bottle of medium-priced Bordeaux for company. When he emerges, he has made the life-changing decision to become a good man. Deciding to sell the family timber business and give away his wealth to charity, Arthur's family become convinced that he has...

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