The Children Act

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A fiercely intelligent, well respected High Court judge in London faces a morally ambiguous case while her own marriage crumbles in a novel that will keep readers thoroughly enthralled until the last stunning page.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 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. Download The Children Act – kino-fada.fr Do you like to people watch You know what I mean just sit somewhere in a busy place and watch people bustle past in all their colourful weirdness It s a habit I ve acquired with age Sometimes I think back to being a teenager and remember how I always wondered if I was strange in some way I guess a lot of teens wonder that same question am I normal I wonder, had I taken the time to people watch back then, ...I have to stop reading McEwan s books, because I never enjoy them There s something clinical, removed, about the way he tells his stories I don t get the sense that he likes human beings, and he is writing about them to display his proficiency with structure and nuance r...THE CHILDREN ACT is about the law and sensational cases, but it is not a legal thriller Rather, it is a beautiful and sad story of a High Court Judge forced to choose, literally, between life and death Her ruling, though proper and legally sound, leads to both.From the first page, I realized Ian McEwan s The Children Act would conquer me This novel isa character study than a simple courtroom drama, as it deals with marriage, religion, and life choices The story centers on the family court Judge Fiona Maye as she faces a crisis in her marriage, questions her life choices and stumbles practically on the edge of both her personal and professional...She felt shrunken to a geometrical point of anxious purposeThis was my eighth McEwan I rated On Chesil Beach as 5 , five others as 4 , and Black Dogs as 2 That track record gave me high hopes for The Children Act, raised further by the intriguing dilemma at its heart whether a bright and articulate Jehovah s Witness boy, very nearly 18, should be forced to have a life saving blood transfusion, against hi...You could argue that the character at the heart of this novel is dangerously close to being a misogynistic clich the career woman who deep freezes her feelings in order to succeed professionally Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in her late fifties At the beginning of the novel her husband, maddened by his wife s sexual detachment, leaves to embark on an affair with a much younger woman It s easy to forget every judge has a personal life and that her professional life will have repercussion You could argue that the character at the heart of this novel is dangerously close to being a misogynistic clich the career woman who deep freezes her feelings in order to succeed professionally Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in her...Perhaps it s best I read The Children Act in the space of a day, curled on my sofa Otherwise I might have been spied in my favorite cafe purring like a contented cat, stroked by the sublimity of Ian McEwan s prose Words adore Ian McEwan, submitting readily to his firm but empathetic hand They are sleek and gorgeous dancers to his choreography alone, the words are admirable, but under his direction they assume nuance and strength His works never fail to take my breath away It is a comfort t Perhaps it s best I read The Children A...McEwan is, in my opinion, very uneven writer I really enjoyedThe cement garden ,Enduring loveandSweet tooth The child in timemoved me deeply whileAmsterdamwas rather disappointment andThe comfort of strangerstotal disaster McEwan relishes quirk and macabre, likes to handling very disturbing and bizarre, not to say creepy behaviours and relationships in his novels He is very efficient and his writer s skills are indubitable but there is some coldness about his writing As McEwan is, in my opinion, very uneven writer I really enjoyedThe cement garden ,Enduring loveandSweet tooth The child in timemoved me deeply whileAmsterdamwas rather disappointment andThe comfort of strangerstotal disaster McEwan relishes quirk and macabre, likes to handling very disturbing and bizarre, not to say creepy behaviours and relationships in his novels He is very efficient and his writer s skills are indubitable but there is some coldness about his writing As if he only was doing his homework and wanted to meet someone s expect...4.5 stars For me a book by McEwan is a low risk pick, as he would unlikely let me down If all else failed, I d always have his exquisite prose and his good ear for music to fall back on It turned out, this skinny 221 page book was one of my favorites of his.This book had two main themes running in parallel the marriage crisis between 59 year old high court family division judge Fiona and her geology professor husband Jack, and the emotional entanglement between Fiona and a 17 year old boy Ad 4.5 stars For me a book by McEwan is a low risk pick, as he would unlikely let me down If all else failed, I d always have his exquisite prose and his good ear for music to fall back on It turned out, this skinny 221 page book was one of my favorites of his.This book had two main themes running in parallel the marriage crisis between 59 year old high court family division judge Fiona and her geology professor husband Jack, and the emotional entanglement between Fiona and a 17 year old boy Adam, whose life was saved by Fiona s ruling against the fundamental belief of Jehovah s Witness The two themes from time to time intersperse with each other over jagged terrains, fed into each other, and indirectly influenced the outcome of each.Comparing to half of dozen other McEwan s books I have read, this one was particularly polemical Should it be morally acceptable for one partner of a listless marriage t...Don t let the fact that this is a pretty short novel deceive you into thinking that there is not much substance here When I finished reading this book, I couldn t stop thinking about the enormous power that Family Court judges have over the lives of so many young children whose families are in crisis and then even if the decision seems right, what happens to these children afterwards Fiona Maye, a High Court Judge in the Family Division of the Courts in England and this could be anywhere ha Don t let the fact that this is a pretty short novel deceive you into thinking that there is not much substance here When I finished reading this book, I couldn t stop thinking abo...

The Children Act
  • English
  • 02 October 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 240 pages
  • 0385539703
  • Ian McEwan
  • The Children Act