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Barbara is an award-winning bookseller who has a special interest in fiction, especially Australian fiction and children’s books for all ages.
Ian McEwan has the uncanny knack of writing novels that are completely different to one another. He won the Man Booker Prize with Amsterdam in 1998. In The Children Act the main character is Fiona Maye, a High Court Judge whose latest ruling is to judge whether to allow doctors to give a life-saving transfusion to a 17 year old boy who is steadfastly refusing to have the transfusion. It because he and his family are devout Jehovah's Witnesses. This procedure is against all their religious beliefs. Adding to the dilemma for the judge is she is experiencing huge marital upheavals as her husband has just announced his intention of having an affair with a much younger woman. There are many issues to fit into a novel of 224 pages but Ian McEwan's skill is to the fore in this emotive and poignant story.
