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The Children Act by Ian McEwan
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The Children Act

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Narrator Lindsay Duncan

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Length 6 hours 15 minutes
Language English
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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 โ€“ an encounter which stirs long-buried feelings in her and powerful new emotions in the boy. Her judgment has momentous consequences for them both.

Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; and Nutshell, which was a Number One bestseller. Atonement and Enduring Love have both been turned into award-winning films, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach are in production and set for release this year, and filming is currently underway for a BBC TV adaptation of The Child in Time.

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Author:

Narrator:
Lindsay Duncan

ISBN:
9781473520295

Length:
6 hours 15 minutes

Language:
English

Publisher:
Random House

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Unabridged

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Compulsively readable... McEwanโ€™s prose keeps its cutting edge and his books are the ones the reading public still craveโ€ฆ A masterly balance between research and imaginationโ€ฆ One feels an immediate pleasure in returning to prose of uncommon clarity, unshowiness and control Classic McEwanโ€ฆ Itโ€™s a pleasure from start to finish, one not to be interrupted A powerful, humane novel One of the finest writers alive McEwan writes as beautifully and elegantly as ever, his prose quintessentially English in its restraint, one meticulously chosen word hinting at depths of emotion Expand reviews
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