The Greatest Possible Good

Resumen del libro

How much should one person give to make the world a better place?How much can one family take?BR BR 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 three-hundred-pound pair of John Lobb loafers. Wed consider them utterly immoral, would we not?BR BR 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 medium-priced Bordeaux for company. When he emerges, he has made the life-changing decision to become a good man.BR BR Deciding to sell the family timber business and give away his wealth to charity, Arthurs family become convinced that he has lost his mind.BR BR His university-bound daughter, Evangeline, wants to change the world but perhaps not at the cost of her own privileged life.BR BR His son, Emil, good at maths and not much else, becomes more distant than ever.BR BR And his wife, Yara, who arrives at airports four hours early and fears that AI and climate change will leave her children unemployed, just wants the doctor to run another brain scan on her husband.

Biografía del autor

Ben Brooks (born 1992 in Gloucestershire) is the author of five novels: Grow Up, Fences, An Island of Fifty, The Kasahara School of Nihilism and Upward Coast and Sadie.