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The children act : a novel / Ian McEwan.
Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge, presiding 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: for religious reasons, Adam, a beautiful seventeen-year-old, is refusing the medical that could save his life, and his devout parents share his wishes. Time is running out. Should the secular court overrule sincerely held 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 both.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780345809629
- Physical Description: 221 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Toronto : Knopf Canada, 2014.
- Copyright: ©2014.
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| Subject: | Women judges > Fiction. Marriage > Fiction Religion > Fiction Self-actualization (Psychology) in women > Fiction. Religion and law > England > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Legal stories. |
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| Castlegar Public Library | FIC MCE (Text) | 35146001887298 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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