The Children Act

a novel

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.

221 Seiten

Sprache: English

Am 2014 von Nan A. Talese/Doubleday veröffentlicht.

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ISBN:
978-0-385-53970-8
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OCLC-Nummer:
877844023

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Themen
  • Self-actualization (Psychology) in women
  • Religion and law
  • FICTION / Psychological
  • Women judges
  • FICTION / Legal
  • FICTION / Literary
  • Fiction

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  • England

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