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008			140528s2014 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2014018448
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100	1		_aMcEwan, Ian,
245	1	4	_aThe children act : _ba novel / _cIan McEwan.
250			_aFirst American edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bNan A. Talese/Doubleday, _c2014.
300			_a221 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
520			_a"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 more 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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aWomen judges _vFiction.
650		0	_aSelf-actualization (Psychology) in women _vFiction.
650		0	_aReligion and law _zEngland _vFiction.
655		7	_aLegal stories. _2gsafd
650		7	_aFICTION / Literary. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aFICTION / Legal. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aFICTION / Psychological. _2bisacsh
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