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The Children Act

Ian McEwan

Hardcover | Pages: 240 pages

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Original Title:	The Children Act
ISBN:	0385539703 (ISBN13: 9780385539708)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Fiona Maye, Adam Henry
Literary Awards:	Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2015), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2014), Europese Literatuurprijs Nominee (2015), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2016)

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A fiercely intelligent, well-respected High Court judge in London faces a morally ambiguous case while her own marriage crumbles in a novel that will keep readers thoroughly enthralled until the last stunning page.

Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London presiding over cases in family court. She is fiercely intelligent, well respected, and deeply immersed in the nuances of her particular field of law. Often the outcome of a case seems simple from the outside, the course of action to ensure a child's welfare obvious. But the law requires more rigor than mere pragmatism, and Fiona is an expert in considering the sensitivities of culture and religion when handing down her verdicts.

But Fiona's professional success belies domestic strife. Her husband, Jack, asks her to consider an open marriage and, after an argument, moves out of their house. His departure leaves her adrift, wondering whether it was not love she had lost so much as a modern form of respectability; whether it was not contempt and ostracism she really fears. She decides to throw herself into her work, especially a complex case involving a seventeen-year-old boy whose parents will not permit a lifesaving blood transfusion because it conflicts with their beliefs as Jehovah's Witnesses. But Jack doesn't leave her thoughts, and the pressure to resolve the case - as well as her crumbling marriage - tests Fiona in ways that will keep readers thoroughly enthralled until the last stunning page.

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Title	:	The Children Act
Author	:	Ian McEwan
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 240 pages
Published	:	September 9th 2014 by Nan A. Talese (first published September 2nd 2014)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Literary Fiction. European Literature. British Literature

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One of the Ian McEwan books I've most enjoyed and a book which inspired the most vigorous debate my book group has ever had - a debate which felt like a day in court as all the 'barristers' present argued their cases; one, for the rights of children; another, the rights of parents; a third the letter of the Law; a fourth, the rights of the characters; a fifth, the rights of readers; a sixth the wrongs of the author. No, scratch that last one off the record, court secretary; the conclusion was

As I began to read The Children Act, I thought that it would be the antithesis to McEwan's other novel, On Chesil Beach, where the marriage of a young newlyweds is damaged beyond repaid in a single moment, by what essentially is lack of communication. In The Children Act the couple is much older and has been married for decades - Fiona is a 59 year old court judge, and is married to Jack, a 60 year old professor of ancient history. They have been together for 35 years, and led what could be

Do you like to people watch?You know what I mean... just sit somewhere in a busy place and watch people bustle past in all their colourful weirdness. It's a habit I've acquired with age. Sometimes I think back to being a teenager and remember how I always wondered if I was strange in some way - I guess a lot of teens wonder that same question: am I normal? I wonder, had I taken the time to people watch back then, if I would have felt so lost and strange. I don't see how I could have. People are

A tad (& maybe even more than just a tad) Dullsville. Like, hello! We know you are the fantastic writer of the incredible ATONEMENT, that you won't ever get to that level again. We recognize it. Your prose is masterful, damn! But... seriously? Not even an ATTEMPT at something more interesting, historical, heck, even more optimistic? McEwan has the uncanny ability to reach that awful and cynical and megableak conclusion that SOME humans are truly nothing; that their humanity is void. The we

I could just strangle Ian McEwan. I said the same thing after reading On Chesil Beach. While reading that book, which I bought NEW, I realized it had been a short story in the New Yorker to which he had added a few pages and then called it a book. It was a good short story but never enough for a book. I wrote him and chided him for the switch but to no avail. The Children Act felt the same way to me. Maybe he's putting his kids through college and needs some quick dough. I thought the marriage

The Children Act by Ian McEwan My seventh McEwan (Enduring Love, Nutshell, Amsterdam, Saturday, On Chesil Beach and Atonement).This one strikes me as a bit different from the others almost like a legal thriller akin to a John Grisham although I dont mean to imply that Grishams popular writing style is like McEwans more literary style.The main character is a woman at the peak of her career as a British family court judge (she is called My Lady.) In the acknowledgements the author cites his