Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
"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"--
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
Previews available in: English Chinese
Subjects
Self-actualization (Psychology) in women, Literary, Religion and law, Self-realization, Women judges, Legal, FICTION, Psychological, Religion, Law, FICTION / Psychological, FICTION / Legal, FICTION / Literary, Large type books, Keyword, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, legal, Women judges, fiction, England, fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), nyt:hardcover-fiction=2014-09-28, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, FictionPlaces
EnglandShowing 10 featured editions. View all 13 editions?
Edition | Availability |
---|---|
01 |
eeee
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
02 |
eeee
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
03 |
cccc
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
04 |
eeee
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
05 |
eeee
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
06 |
eeee
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
07 |
aaaa
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
08
The children act: a novel
2014, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
in English
- First United States edition.
0385539703 9780385539708
|
eeee
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
09 |
eeee
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
10 |
eeee
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
Book Details
Classifications
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Work Description
London High Court Judge Fiona Maye presides over a sensitive case involving a family of Jehovah's Witnesses who won't allow their seventeen-year-old son to get a lifesaving blood transfusion because it conflicts with their religious beliefs. Meanwhile, Fiona's husband, Jack, has just left home, and she begins to feel the pressures of both resolving the case and saving her crumbling marriage.
Links outside Open Library
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?History
- Created July 18, 2019
- 7 revisions
Wikipedia citation
×CloseCopy and paste this code into your Wikipedia page. Need help?
December 17, 2022 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
December 24, 2021 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
January 10, 2021 | Edited by Lisa | Merge works |
January 9, 2021 | Edited by Lisa | Merge works |
July 18, 2019 | Created by MARC Bot | Imported from marc_openlibraries_sanfranciscopubliclibrary MARC record. |