The Children Act
(Sprache: Englisch)
A brilliant, emotionally wrenching new novel from the author of Atonement and Amsterdam.
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A brilliant, emotionally wrenching new novel from the author of Atonement and Amsterdam.
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Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge, presiding over cases in the family court. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude and sensitivity. But her professional success belies private sorrow and domestic strife. There is the lingering regret of her childlessness, and now, her marriage of thirty years is in crisis.
Autoren-Porträt von Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. 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; and Nutshell, which was a Number One bestseller. Atonement and Enduring Love have both been turned into award-winning films, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach are in production and set for release this year, and filming is currently underway for a BBC TV adaptation of The Child in Time.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Ian McEwan
- 2015, 224 Seiten, Maße: 10,8 x 17,7 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: VINTAGE
- ISBN-10: 0099599643
- ISBN-13: 9780099599647
- Erscheinungsdatum: 21.03.2015
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
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
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