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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.
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The Children ACT, Ian McEwan
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- Released
- 2015
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- Title
- The Children ACT
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Ian McEwan
- Publisher
- ANCHOR
- Released
- 2015
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 240
- ISBN10
- 110187287X
- ISBN13
- 9781101872871
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery Novels, Legal Topics, Love, Family, Women, Contemporary Fiction, Suspense, Relationships, Wars, Literary Fiction, School, British Literature, England, Life, Faith, Great Britain, Parenthood, English Literature, Adapted for Film, Marriage, London, 21st Century, Hope, Psychological novels, Ethics, Gifts, Trust, Teachers, Men, Scandals and Affairs, Poisons, Poisoning, Lawyers, Legal Environment, Court, Court Trials, Responsibility, Judiciary, Family Law, Booker Prize, Leukemia, Jehovah's Witnesses
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- 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.