The Children Act

By Ian McEwan

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

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.