Summary
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 i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099599630 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099599635 |
| Author: | Ian McEwan |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2015 |
| Weight: | 184g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 14mm |
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A wonderfully readable and thought-provoking book
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. * Red *A compelling moral dilemma [with] a moving and heartfelt denouement. * Tatler *Shows McEwan as a master of fiction. * 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.
About The Author
Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of nineteen novels and two short story collections. 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; Machines Like Me; and Lessons. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.
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