The Children Act

Produktbeschreibung

Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge, presiding over cases in the family court. 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: for religious reasons, a beautiful seventeen-year-old boy, Adam, is refusing the medical treatment that could save his life, and his devout parents share his wishes. Time is running out. Should the secular court overrule sincerely held faith? In the course of reaching a decision Fiona visits Adam in hospital - an encounter which stirs long-buried feelings in her and powerful new emotions in the boy. Her judgment has momentous consequences for them both. 

Kritik

"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 

Autoreninfo

Ian McEwan, geboren 1948, lebt in London. Schon seine ersten Erzählungen wurden 1976 mit dem Somerset-Maugham-Award ausgezeichnet. 1999 erhielt er den Shakespeare-Preis der Alfred-Toepfer-Stiftung für das Gesamtwerk und 2011 wurde er mit dem Jerusalem Preis für Literatur ausgezeichnet. Ian McEwan ist Ehrenmitglied der American Academy of Arts and Sciences.