The Greatest Possible Good

‘Brooks is a frightening young talent.’ Tim Key

‘I love Ben Brooks.’ Matt Haig

‘Ben Brooks is a magical imp who pumps out dark nuggets of poetry and makes you snort with laughter.’ Noel Fielding

‘Brooks has the timing of a genius stand-up comic.’ Richard Milward

‘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

‘An immersive family saga that asks all the right questions about how to live in an imperfect world’ Andrew Ridker, author of Hope

‘Ben Brooks is a writer who genuinely excites me.’ Colin Herd, 3:AM Magazine

‘A warmhearted tragicomedy about what it means to live a good life.’ People Magazine

‘Brooks makes each of his flawed characters endearing by showing not just their pettiness and limitations but what is in their hearts… The pleasures of this novel’s writing, characters, and plot are fully equal to its good intentions.’ Kirkus Review (starred)

‘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

Ben Brooks is the author of books for children and adults, including The Greatest Possible Good and the million-copy-selling Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different. The latter was a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller, translated into twenty-eight languages, and received a British National Book Award.

He received a Somerset Maugham Award and a Jerwood Fiction Prize for his debut novel Lolito, and the Celsius 232 and Premio Torres del Agua for The Impossible Boy. He also writes for television and is developing original TV projects in the UK and Germany.

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