The Children Act
Ian McEwan • 2014
Devastation Rating
love loss literary fiction philosophical
Our Take
A family court judge rules on a teenage Jehovah's Witness who refuses a blood transfusion, and her decision — and the visit she makes to the boy — becomes the centre of a crisis she didn't see coming. McEwan makes the intersection of law, love, and belief into something genuinely devastating.
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