Nan A. Talese
September 2014
On Sale: September 9, 2014
240 pages ISBN: 0385539703 EAN: 9780385539708 Kindle: B00JNQKR46 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge who presides
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.
At the same time, she is called
on to try an urgent case: Adam, a beautiful
seventeen-year-old boy, is refusing for religious reasons
the medical treatment that could save his life, and his
devout parents echo his wishes. Time is running out. Should
the secular court overrule sincerely expressed faith? In the
course of reaching a decision, Fiona visits Adam in the
hospital—an encounter that stirs long-buried feelings in her
and powerful new emotions in the boy. Her judgment has
momentous consequences for them both.
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