The Children Act
A brilliant, emotionally wrenching new novel from the author of Atonement and Amsterdam.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...
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A brilliant, emotionally wrenching new novel from the author of Atonement and Amsterdam.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 ch
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780345809629 (0345809629)
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Fazit: Familienrichterin in der Ehekrise. Intensiv und kurzweilig. Rezension: Fiona Maye ist eine angesehene Familienrichterin. Mit einer vielbewunderten Mischung aus Einfühlungsvermögen und kühler, rechtlicher Logik, entscheidet sie über Sorgerechtsfragen und andere Dinge, wenn die Eltern der bet...
Synopsis: High Court judge, Fiona Maye, presides over family court in London. All is going well until two events collide her life's roles into chaos. The first involves a seventeen year old Jehovah Witness, Matthew, who upon hearing he has cancer wants to refuse the treatment the government is fo...
Ian McEwan can write some of the most gorgeous prose, but sometimes it seems like the emotion behind those words is somehow missing. I felt like this novel specifically was building to some sort of climax that was never quite realized - we had the big, emotional moment, and then the book was just do...
Ian McEwan’s brief, multi-layered novel about trial judge Fiona Maye, in the High Court of the Family Court Division in England, is based on very real case law; otherwise it is entirely fiction. More than Fiona’s story, this is a story about legal and medical ethics, domestic difficulties, parental ...
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