Judge between own marriage crisis and the lives of others

No, really, it does not say that Ian McEwan would suffer thematically or staffed to fantasy poverty itself. Was it in "Solar" a fat, cynical climate researchers and in "Sweet Tooth" a secret agent, so it's in his long-awaited new novel "The Children Act" the highly successful working in a court in London family court judge Fiona Maye whose husband one day asking to be allowed to have an affair. Fiona refuses indignantly and rushes out of anger and disappointment over the hormonal activities of her husband even more in their work. The 17-year-old Adam has leukemia, but refused on religious grounds, the life-saving blood transfusions. Fiona's decision marks in this case, not the end but rather the beginning of a process during which the aging judge sees questioned many of their basic beliefs.

McEwan is a storyteller and stylist before the Lord, which makes almost any of his novels into an unforgettable experience (with the notable exception of "Amsterdam", for which he received but then strangely awarded the Booker Prize). In "The Children Act" McEwan chooses a personal narrative situation with Fiona as a reflective subject in the center of the novel. We see how the completely rationalized character of Fiona Maye is brought by her marriage crisis completely out of the concept and they almost greedily plunges into the apparent clarity of the provisions and paragraphs, to decide on other people's lives, what you will be much easier, as their own existence beyond the court to get to the number. About one of her cases pondering whether the moribund Siamese twin may be killed so as to save the other, it arrives at a central knowledge about the nature of life in general and their existence as a judge in particular: "Blind luck, to arrive in the world with your properly FORMED parts in the right place, to be born to parents who were loving, not cruel, or to escape, by geographical or social accident, And THEREFORE FIND IT was or poverty. so much easier to be virtous "(30).

Although strictly speaking not much happens (marital crisis, normal case, normal rational judgment), the novel unfolds a tremendous force which results from the fact that Fiona from her counterpart, Adam, who completely precluding their life plan and its principles, completely out of the concept is brought. McEwan is Geling, their thought processes so convincingly portray that we are pursuing as readers breathless and puzzled about what impact Fiona's decisions will have on their environment and, above all on himself.