The Children Act

Description:

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.

subjects: Self-actualization (Psychology) in women,  Literary,  Religion and law,  Self-realization,  Women judges,  Legal,  FICTION,  Psychological,  Religion,  Law,  FICTION / Psychological,  FICTION / Legal,  FICTION / Literary,  Large type books,  Keyword,  Fiction, psychological,  Fiction, legal,  Women judges, fiction,  England, fiction,  British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author),  nyt:hardcover-fiction=2014-09-28,  New York Times bestseller,  New York Times reviewed

Places: England