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Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge, presiding over cases in the family court. 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, a beautiful seventeen-year-old boy, Adam, is refusing the medical treatment that could save his life, and his devout parents share his wishes. Time is running out. Should the secular court overrule sincerely held faith? In the course of reaching a decision Fiona visits Adam in hospital – an encounter which stirs long-buried feelings in her and powerful new emotions in the boy. Her judgment has momentous consequences for them both.
At the same time, she is called on to try an urgent case: for religious reasons, a beautiful seventeen-year-old boy, Adam, is refusing the medical treatment that could save his life, and his devout parents share his wishes. Time is running out. Should the secular court overrule sincerely held faith? In the course of reaching a decision Fiona visits Adam in hospital – an encounter which stirs long-buried feelings in her and powerful new emotions in the boy. Her judgment has momentous consequences for them both.
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"Compulsively readable... McEwan’s prose keeps its cutting edge and his books are the ones the reading public still crave... A masterly balance between research and imagination... One feels an immediate pleasure in returning to prose of uncommon clarity, unshowiness and control" (The Times)
"Classic McEwan... It’s a pleasure from start to finish, one not to be interrupted" (Guardian)
"A powerful, humane novel" (Evening Standard)
"One of the finest writers alive" (Sunday Times)
"McEwan writes as beautifully and elegantly as ever, his prose quintessentially English in its restraint, one meticulously chosen word hinting at depths of emotion" (Washington Post)
"A finely written, engaging read... Poignant, challenging and lyrical" (Sunday Express)
"A class act by one of our finest novelists." (Viv Groskop Red)
"A compelling moral dilemma [with] a moving and heartfelt denouement." (Tatler)
"Shows McEwan as a master of fiction." (Olivia Cole GQ)
"It is one most extraordinary, powerful, moving reading experiences of my life. It is an utterly remarkable novel, delicately balanced, perfectly crafted, beautifully written." (Alberto Manguel)
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"Classic McEwan... It’s a pleasure from start to finish, one not to be interrupted" (Guardian)
"A powerful, humane novel" (Evening Standard)
"One of the finest writers alive" (Sunday Times)
"McEwan writes as beautifully and elegantly as ever, his prose quintessentially English in its restraint, one meticulously chosen word hinting at depths of emotion" (Washington Post)
"A finely written, engaging read... Poignant, challenging and lyrical" (Sunday Express)
"A class act by one of our finest novelists." (Viv Groskop Red)
"A compelling moral dilemma [with] a moving and heartfelt denouement." (Tatler)
"Shows McEwan as a master of fiction." (Olivia Cole GQ)
"It is one most extraordinary, powerful, moving reading experiences of my life. It is an utterly remarkable novel, delicately balanced, perfectly crafted, beautifully written." (Alberto Manguel)
Ian McEwan is a critically acclaimed author of short stories and novels for adults, as well as The Daydreamer, a children's novel illustrated by Anthony Browne. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award, The Cement Garden, Enduring Love, Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize, Atonement, Saturday, On Chesil Beach, Solar and Sweet Tooth.
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- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 0224101994
- ISBN 13 9780224101998
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