The Children Act

Author(s): Ian McEwan

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Now a Major Motion Picture starring Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci, and Fionn Whitehead.  One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, BookRiot 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.

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Re-jacketed in stunning new series style, The Children Act is a brilliant, emotionally wrenching novel from the Booker prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling Ian McEwan

Long-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2016.

"Compulsively readable... McEwan's prose keeps its cutting edge and his books are the ones the reading public still crave... A masterly balance between research and imagination... One feels an immediate pleasure in returning to prose of uncommon clarity, unshowiness and control" --The Times

"Classic McEwan... It's a pleasure from start to finish, one not to be interrupted" --Guardian

"A powerful, humane novel" --Evening Standard

"One of the finest writers alive" --Sunday Times

"McEwan writes as beautifully and elegantly as ever, his prose quintessentially English in its restraint, one meticulously chosen word hinting at depths of emotion" --Washington Post

"A finely written, engaging read... Poignant, challenging and lyrical" --Sunday Express

"A class act by one of our finest novelists." -- Viv Groskop Red

"A compelling moral dilemma [with] a moving and heartfelt denouement."-- Tatler

"Shows McEwan as a master of fiction." --Olivia Cole GQ

"It is one most extraordinary, powerful, moving reading experiences of my life. It is an utterly remarkable novel, delicately balanced, perfectly crafted, beautifully written." -- Alberto Manguel

Ian McEwan is a critically acclaimed author of short stories and novels for adults, as well as The Daydreamer, a children's novel illustrated by Anthony Browne. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award, The Cement Garden, Enduring Love, Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize, Atonement, Saturday, On Chesil Beach, Solar and Sweet Tooth.

General Fields

  • : 9780099599630
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : 0.186
  • : February 2014
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Ian McEwan
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 216
  • : FA