03326cam a2200493 4500 760923410 TxAuBib 20230213120000.0 090713s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780385539715 electronic bk. 0385539711 electronic bk. B00JNQKR46 Amazon EB00320357 Recorded Books 361b9721-bd3c-4d6d-af72-937601db0174 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1681868 OverDrive (Product ID) 246903 246903 246903 (OCoLC)883346370 RECBK eng RECBK TEFOD N$T IDEBK COO SO$ TXN TxAuBib McEwan, Ian, author. The children act [Libby] / Ian Mcewan. New York : Nan A. Talese, 2014. 1 online resource. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2800kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. 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. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-04-13 10:07:10. Imported from MARC file. FICTION / Literary. Fiction. Women judges Fiction. Self-actualization (Psychology) in women Fiction. Religion and law England Fiction. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Electronic books. http://hadc.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=361B9721-BD3C-4D6D-AF72-937601DB0174 http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/%7B361B9721-BD3C-4D6D-AF72-937601DB0174%7DImg100.jpg Image https://samples.overdrive.com/children-act?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/children-act?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/children-act?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) RV8