The Children Act
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Sell my copyAuthor: Ian McEwan
Title: The Children Act
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 240
Release Date: 2015-04-28
Details: A brilliant, emotionally wrenching novel from the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement about a leading High Court judge who must resolve an urgent case-as well as her crumbling marriage.
Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge who presides over cases in the family division. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude, and sensitivity. But her professional success belies private sorrow and domestic strife. There is the lingering regret of her childlessness, and now her marriage of thirty years is in crisis.
At the same time, she is called on to try an urgent case: Adam, a beautiful seventeen-year-old boy, is refusing for religious reasons the medical treatment that could save his life, and his devout parents echo his wishes. Time is running out. Should the secular court overrule sincerely expressed faith? In the course of reaching a decision, Fiona visits Adam in the hospital-an encounter that stirs long-buried feelings in her and powerful new emotions in the boy. Her judgment has momentous consequences for them both.
Don't miss Ian McEwan's new novel, Lessons.
EAN: 9781101872871
Package Dimensions: Height: 7.95 Inches, Length: 5.22 Inches, Weight: 0.525 Pounds, Width: 0.72 Inches
Languages: en
