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The Empathy Problem: It's never too late to change your life

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The Empathy Problem: It's never too late to change your life by Gavin Extence and Jack Hawkins

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By Gavin Extence and Jack Hawkins

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Driven by money, power and success, Gabriel has worked ruthlessly to get to the very top of the banking game. He’s not going to let the inconvenience of a terminal brain tumour get in his way.
But the tumour has other ideas. As it grows, it appears to be doing strange things to Gabriel’s personality. Whether he likes it or not, he seems to be becoming less selfish, less mercenary, less unlikeable.

Once he could dismiss the rest of humanity as irrelevant. Now he’s not so sure. Women, in particular, are becoming worryingly three-dimensional. And none more so than Caitlin, the ‘unremarkable’ girl he sees busking on the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral. When she plays her violin, Gabriel could almost believe that he has a soul… But as each day that passes brings him closer to his last, has time run out for second chances? Bestselling author Gavin Extence pushes the envelope again with another thought-provoking and funny novel about the surprises, good and bad, that life can throw at us.

(P)2016 Hodder & Stoughton

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23 May 2017

lynneroberts23

All the members of our reading group enjoyed this book. We thought that Gabriel changed from a person we all disliked into a person we could empathise with and feel sorry for. We non of us understand how hedge funds work and how he managed to loose all the money but never the less enjoyed the book. We could a remember reading about, and seeing news reports about, the protest camp and this book brought it to life.

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