The children act
Subtitle: a novel
By: Ian McEwan
Edition: First United States edition.
Publisher: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780385539708
Subjects: Self-actualization (Psychology) in women; Religion and law; FICTION / Psychological; Women judges; FICTION / Legal; FICTION / Literary; Fiction
Description: 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.