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Description for The Children Act
Paperback. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Fiona Maye, a leading High Court judge, renowned for her fierce intelligence and sensitivity is called on to try an urgent case. For religious reasons, a seventeen-year-old boy is refusing the medical treatment that could save his life. Time is running out. She visits the boy in hospital - an encounter which stirs long-buried feelings in her and powerful new emotions in the boy. But it is Fiona who must ultimately decide whether he lives or dies and her judgement will have momentous consequences for them both.
Fiona Maye, a leading High Court judge, renowned for her fierce intelligence and sensitivity is called on to try an urgent case. For religious reasons, a seventeen-year-old boy is refusing the medical treatment that could save his life. Time is running out. She visits the boy in hospital - an encounter which stirs long-buried feelings in her and powerful new emotions in the boy. But it is Fiona who must ultimately decide whether he lives or dies and her judgement will have momentous consequences for them both.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784705572
SKU
KSS0006497
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Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. 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; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; and Nutshell, which was a number-one bestseller. Atonement and Enduring Love have both been turned into award-winning films, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach are in production and set for release this year.
Reviews for The Children Act
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
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