Description
Title: Children Act
Author: Ian McEwan
ISBN: 9780385539708
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Published: 2014
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First U.S. Edition, Stated, First Printi
Number of Pages: 240
Condition: Used Copy
Publisher : Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge who presides over cases in the family court. 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.
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