{"product_id":"the-greatest-possible-good-paperback","title":"The Greatest Possible Good (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eI’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?’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArthur 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eDeciding to sell the family timber business and give away his wealth to charity, Arthur’s family become convinced that he has lost his mind.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHis university-bound daughter, Evangeline, wants to change the world but perhaps not at the cost of her own privileged life.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHis son, Emil, good at maths and not much else, becomes more distant than ever.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAnd 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIncisive, hilarious and unflinchingly human, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Greatest Possible Good\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e asks fundamental questions about what it means to live a good life while introducing the world to one of the great families of contemporary literature.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ben Brooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61742571651402,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1037\/5256\/5066\/files\/71GYfFzOwZL._SL1500.jpg?v=1777632046","url":"https:\/\/mavisbookshop.com\/products\/the-greatest-possible-good-paperback","provider":"Mavis","version":"1.0","type":"link"}