How is pushing open doors very elegant

Fiona Maye, highly respected family court judge in London's High Court is accustomed to meet experienced and knowledgeable decisions about the lives of others. And we are responding in a moment when her own life threatens to fall apart: The husband has just opened her that he has a mistress. As they try to meet the needs of their demanding profession despite this sensitive distraction, Ian McEwan describes aptly and impressively - who had to work under such circumstances even once, knows how extremely stressful it is.

At the court a series of paradigmatic cases awaiting you: The Orthodox Jew who can not bear that want to break wife and daughters from the children's kitchen Synagogue role that faith has intended for them; the Muslim father who abducted his daughter to Morocco in order to escape the clutches of the English wife and English jurisdiction; Catholics who take the fifth commandment so serious that they have their Siamese twins rather die together than the one that terminally ill to sacrifice in order to save the other, the viable; and finally Jehovah's Witnesses, who do not want to allow her seventeen years, suffering from leukemia son Adam receives lifesaving blood transfusion, a wish that also the boy Strongly and credible.

With these examples, a lot of which is covered, what in the Abrahamic religions the child's welfare, as we understand it today precludes. And designed-systematically, as these cases are executing sequentially, so little new Ian McEwan can contribute to the greatest possible extent ausdiskutierten themes. All doors that he is pushing, standing wide open basically, and you do not even have to be an atheist, to consider all these ways of thinking as a misanthropic.

Although Adams developed into heart continuous history in a way that brings them Fiona and her professional ethics shaken (by the way, very predictably), a total of just yet quite simple and simplistic, the message of the novel remains. And so you would put the book aside unsatisfied, if not for Ian McEwan would masterful prose with which he gives himself the language of lawyers a certain beauty, if only because of the balance and logic with which Fiona falls their verdicts, and the all at a great reading experience makes. So "The Children Act" has thus nothing really new, but in inimitable fashion.

PS I can not re-explain what the undoubtedly stylish cover art has to do with the actual contents of the book to me sometimes.