Awards

• Long-listed for I.M.P.A.C. Dublin Award 2016 (UK)
• Long-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2016
• Long-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2016 (UK)
• Long-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2016.

Overview

Re-jacketed in stunning new series style for 2023, The Children Act is a brilliant, emotionally wrenching novel from the Booker prize-winning, multi-million copy bestselling Ian McEwan A brilliant, emotionally wrenching new novel from the author of Atonement and Amsterdam. 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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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 Every word counts: one has the sense of a complicated piece of music played by a master soloist. -- Christina Hardyment The Times Fascinatingly complex and finally heartbreaking... A quite beautiful work of fiction. -- John Sutherland The Times A great writer. One of the most acute chroniclers of modern life and its discontents ... The Children Act is both gripping and highly topical...Entirely entrancing -- Andrew Marr Prose of uncommon clarity, unshowiness and control ... Masterly -- Kate Kellaway Observer

Although thrillingly close to the child within us, McEwan nonetheless writes for, and about, the grown-ups. In a climate that breeds juvenile cynicism, we more than ever need his adult art. -- Boyd Tonkin Independent Every word counts: one has the sense of a complicated piece of music played by a master soloist. -- Christina Hardyment The Times Fascinatingly complex and finally heartbreaking... A quite beautiful work of fiction. -- John Sutherland The Times A great writer. One of the most acute chroniclers of modern life and its discontents ... The Children Act is both gripping and highly topical...Entirely entrancing -- Andrew Marr Prose of uncommon clarity, unshowiness and control ... Masterly -- Kate Kellaway The Observer

It is an utterly remarkable novel, delicately balanced, perfectly crafted, beautifully written. I don't understand how you do it -- I'm just very grateful that you do. -- Alberto Manguel Although thrillingly close to the child within us, McEwan nonetheless writes for, and about, the grown-ups. In a climate that breeds juvenile cynicism, we more than ever need his adult art. -- Boyd Tonkin Independent Every word counts: one has the sense of a complicated piece of music played by a master soloist. -- Christina Hardyment The Times Fascinatingly complex and finally heartbreaking... A quite beautiful work of fiction. -- John Sutherland The Times A great writer. One of the most acute chroniclers of modern life and its discontents ... The Children Act is both gripping and highly topical...Entirely entrancing -- Andrew Marr

A wonderfully readable and thought-provoking book -- Kathryn Atkins Bristol Magazine A short novel that will linger in your mind for a long time Woman's Weekly Another beautifully written masterpiece Beyond relevant, emotive, moving, this is beautifully written and a guaranteed page turner -- Matthew Smith H Edition One of our best authors at his best. -- Murray Neil Hertfordshire Life One of my favourite authors... McEwan's fascination with judicial issues, with music and poetry, and with the moral conundrum of how far you place your religious beliefs above the life of someone you love, all feature in this book which will leave you thinking long after you have finished it. -- Frances Colville Frost Magazine It's an enjoyable and often surprising novella. -- Charlotte Heathcote Daily Express

Author Information

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; and Nutshell, which was a Number One bestseller. Atonement and Enduring Love have both been turned into award-winning films, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach are in production and set for release this year, and filming is currently underway for a BBC TV adaptation of The Child in Time.

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