THE CHILDREN ACT

Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge, presiding over cases in the family court. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exa ctitude and sensitivity. But her professional success belies private sorrow and domestic strife. There is the lingering regret of he r childlessness, and now, her marriage of thirty years is in crisis.At the same time, she is called on to try an urgent case: for re ligious reasons, a beautiful seventeen-year-old boy, Adam, is refusing the medical treatment that could save his life, and his devou t parent...[Llegir més]