224 pages
English language
Published Nov. 18, 2015 by Penguin Random House, Vintage.
Children Act
by Ian McEwan
3 stars
(1 review)
London High Court Judge Fiona Maye presides over a sensitive case involving a family of Jehovah's Witnesses who won't allow their seventeen-year-old son to get a lifesaving blood transfusion because it conflicts with their religious beliefs. Meanwhile, Fiona's husband, Jack, has just left home, and she begins to feel the pressures of both resolving the case and saving her crumbling marriage.
Subjects
- Fiction, psychological
- Fiction, legal
- Women judges, fiction
- England, fiction
- British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)