The children act : a novel
(Book)

Library Journal, September 2014

Booklist starred, August 2014

Publisher's Weekly, July 2014

Kirkus Starred, August 2014

Library Journal

Booklist starred

Publisher's Weekly

"Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge who presides over cases in the family division. 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, Adam, a gentle seventeen-year-old boy, is refusing the medical treatment that could save his life, and his devout parents echo his wishes. Time is running out. Should the secular court overrule sincerely expressed faith? In the course of reaching a decision, Fiona visits Adam in the hospital--an encounter that stirs long-buried feelings in her and powerful emotions in the boy. Her judgment has momentous consequences for them both"--Back cover.

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