The Resource The children act, Ian McEwan
The children act, Ian McEwan
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Resource Information
The item The children act, Ian McEwan represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- "Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge in the family court, renowned for fierce intelligence, exactitude, and sensitivity. But her professional success belies private sorrow: the lingering regret of childlessness and a thirty-year marriage in crisis. Now Fiona is trying an urgent case: Adam, a ... seventeen-year-old boy, is refusing medical treatment for religious reasons, and his devout parents echo his wishes. Fiona visits Adam in the hospital, and her decision has momentous consequences for them both"--Page 4 of cover
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 279 pages (large print)
- Note
-
- "A novel"--Cover
- "Published in 2014 by arrangement with Nan A. Talese, an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company"--Title page verso
- Isbn
- 9781410474643
- Label
- The children act
- Title
- The children act
- Statement of responsibility
- Ian McEwan
- Subject
-
- truePeople with cancer
- Religion and law -- England -- Fiction
- trueSelf-fulfillment in women
- trueMedical care
- trueTeenage boys
- FICTION / Legal
- trueEngland
- trueJehovah's Witnesses
- trueMiddle-aged women
- Self-actualization (Psychology) in women -- Fiction
- trueExtramarital affairs
- Large type books
- truePsychological fiction
- trueWomen judges
- Large type books
- trueTrials
- Women judges -- Fiction
- trueMusic
- trueLegal stories
- trueBooks to movies
- trueReligion and law
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge in the family court, renowned for fierce intelligence, exactitude, and sensitivity. But her professional success belies private sorrow: the lingering regret of childlessness and a thirty-year marriage in crisis. Now Fiona is trying an urgent case: Adam, a ... seventeen-year-old boy, is refusing medical treatment for religious reasons, and his devout parents echo his wishes. Fiona visits Adam in the hospital, and her decision has momentous consequences for them both"--Page 4 of cover
- Summary
- A highly respected London judge hides behind her professional accomplishments her decision to separate from a husband who wants an open marriage, a loss that challenges her beliefs throughout a case involving parents whose faith forbids a life-saving transfusion for their son
- Award
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- ALA Notable Book, 2015.
- LibraryReads Favorites, 2014
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10358043
- Cataloging source
- CGP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- McEwan, Ian
- Dewey number
- 823/.914
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Women judges
- Self-actualization (Psychology) in women
- Religion and law
- Large type books
- FICTION / Legal
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The children act, Ian McEwan
- Note
-
- "A novel"--Cover
- "Published in 2014 by arrangement with Nan A. Talese, an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company"--Title page verso
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn904971521
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 279 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781410474643
- Isbn Type
- (hardcovwer)
- Lccn
- 2014033410
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)904971521
- Label
- The children act, Ian McEwan
- Note
-
- "A novel"--Cover
- "Published in 2014 by arrangement with Nan A. Talese, an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company"--Title page verso
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn904971521
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 279 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781410474643
- Isbn Type
- (hardcovwer)
- Lccn
- 2014033410
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)904971521
Subject
- trueBooks to movies
- trueEngland
- trueExtramarital affairs
- FICTION / Legal
- trueJehovah's Witnesses
- Large type books
- Large type books
- trueLegal stories
- trueMedical care
- trueMiddle-aged women
- trueMusic
- truePeople with cancer
- truePsychological fiction
- trueReligion and law
- Religion and law -- England -- Fiction
- Self-actualization (Psychology) in women -- Fiction
- trueSelf-fulfillment in women
- trueTeenage boys
- trueTrials
- trueWomen judges
- Women judges -- Fiction
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