02417cam a2200337 i 4500 1164320991 TxAuBib 20140926120000.0 140528s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2014018448 9780385539708 hardback 0385539703 hardback (OCoLC)877844023 DLC eng rda DLC BTCTA BDX UPZ OCLCF YDXCP LF3 ZS3 TxAuBib rda McEwan, Ian, author. The children act : a novel / Ian McEwan. First United States edition. New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, [2014] 221 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2014. "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 child's welfare obvious. But the law requires more rigor than mere pragmatism, and Fiona is expert in considering the sensitivities of culture and religion when handing down her verdicts. But Fiona's professional success belies domestic strife. Her husband, Jack, asks her to consider an open marriage and, after an argument, moves out of their house. His departure leaves her adrift, wondering whether it was not love she had lost so much as a modern form of respectability; whether it was not contempt and ostracism she really fears. She decides to throw herself into her work, especially a complex case involving a seventeen-year-old boy whose parents will not permit a lifesaving blood transfusion because it conflicts with their beliefs as Jehovah's Witnesses. But Jack doesn't leave her thoughts, and the pressure to resolve the case--as well as her crumbling marriage--tests Fiona in ways that will keep readers thoroughly enthralled until the last stunning page"-- Provided by publisher. 20140926. Women judges Fiction. Self-actualization (Psychology) in women Fiction. Religion and law England Fiction. Legal stories. TXKIP