The Children Act
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A
brilliant, emotionally wrenching new novel from the author of
Atonement and
Amsterdam.
Fiona Maye, a leading High Court judge,
renowned for her fierce intelligence and sensitivity is called on
to try an urgent case. For religious reasons, a seventeen-year-old
boy is refusing the medical treatment that could save his life.
Time is running
out.
She visits the boy in hospital - an
encounter which stirs long-buried feelings in her and powerful new
emotions in the boy. But it is Fiona who must ultimately decide
whether he lives or dies and her judgement will have momentous
consequences for them
both.