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The Children Act

ISBN 
9781784705572
Format 
Paperback
Recommended Price 
R275.00
Published 
September 2018
About the book: 
Fiona Maye, a leading High Court judge, renowned for her fierce intelligence and sensitivity is called on to try an urgent case. For religious reasons, a seventeen-year-old boy is refusing the medical treatment that could save his life. Time is running out.
 
She visits the boy in hospital – an encounter which stirs long-buried feelings in her and powerful new emotions in the boy. But it is Fiona who must ultimately decide whether he lives or dies and her judgement will have momentous consequences for them both.
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About the Author

Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. 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; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; and Machines Like Me,  which was a number-one bestseller.  Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act  and  On Chesil Beach  have all been adapted for the big screen.

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