The word ‘cruel’ occurs several times.Do you think she is partly responsible for Jack’s decision? To what extent do you sympathise with Fiona? To what extent do you sympathise with Jack? Jack refuses to take full responsibility for his decision to have an affair, saying that in part it is due to Fiona (p.32–3).But it is Fiona who must ultimately decide whether he lives or dies and her judgement will have momentous consequences for them both. She visits the boy in hospital – an encounter which stirs long-buried feelings in her and powerful new emotions in the boy.
For religious reasons, a seventeen-year-old boy is refusing medical treatment that could save his life. A brilliant, emotionally wrenching novel from the author of Atonement and Amsterdam, The Children Act by Ian McEwan is a book club choice to remember.įiona Maye, a leading High Court judge, is called on to try an urgent case.
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