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The Children Act

  • Ian McEwan

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7 ratings

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.

Genres

  • Self-actualization (Psychology) in women
  • Literary
  • Religion and law
  • Self-realization
  • Women judges
  • Legal
  • FICTION
  • Psychological
  • Religion
  • Law
  • FICTION / Psychological
  • FICTION / Legal
  • FICTION / Literary
  • Large type books
  • Keyword
  • Fiction, psychological
  • Fiction, legal
  • Women judges, fiction
  • England, fiction
  • British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • nyt:hardcover-fiction=2014-09-28
  • New York Times bestseller
  • New York Times reviewed
  • Fiction
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About the author

  • Ian McEwan

    born 21 June 1948

    3.71

    120 ratings · 186 works

Editions

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    Charnwood

  • Edition cover

    Chu ban

    Mai tian chu ban

    2015

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    Diogenes

    2015

  • Edition cover

    Knopf Canada

    Sep 09, 2014

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Anchor

Apr 28, 2015

  • Edition cover

    First United States edition.

    Nan A. Talese/Doubleday

    2014

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    Large print edition.

    2014

  • Edition cover

    Random House UK Limited

    2015

  • Edition cover

    Penguin Random House

    2018

  • Edition cover

    Jonathan Cape

    2014

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    Vintage Canada

    2015

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    Anagrama

    2015

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    Penguin Random House, Vintage

    2015