THE GREATEST POSSIBLE GOOD

How much should one person give to make the world a better place How much can one family take 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 You ll not forget the Candlewicks once you meet them This splendid wry satire is about a wealthy family self important 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 all too real LitHub A warmhearted tragicomedy about what it means to live a good life People Magazine A sharp witted 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 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 spend