Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly feature of the Breaking the Spine blog. It's a great way to share information about
forthcoming books with other readers. Since I've enjoyed previous books by Ian McEwan, today I'm featuring his new novel, which will be available soon.
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: September 9, 2014
From barnesandnoble.com: A brilliant, emotionally wrenching new novel from the author of Atonement and Amsterdam.
Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London presiding over cases in family court. She is fiercely intelligent, well respected, and deeply immersed in the nuances of her particular field of law. Often the outcome of a case seems simple from the outside, the course of action to ensure a child's welfare obvious. But the law requires more rigor than mere pragmatism, and Fiona is expert in considering the sensitivities of culture and religion when handing down her verdicts.
Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London presiding over cases in family court. She is fiercely intelligent, well respected, and deeply immersed in the nuances of her particular field of law. Often the outcome of a case seems simple from the outside, the course of action to ensure a child's welfare obvious. But the law requires more rigor than mere pragmatism, and Fiona is expert in considering the sensitivities of culture and religion when handing down her verdicts.
But Fiona's professional success belies domestic strife. Her
husband, Jack, asks her to consider an open marriage and, after an
argument, moves out of their house. His departure leaves her adrift,
wondering whether it was not love she had lost so much as a modern form
of respectability; whether it was not contempt and ostracism she really
fears. She decides to throw herself into her work, especially a complex
case involving a seventeen-year-old boy whose parents will not permit a
lifesaving blood transfusion because it conflicts with their beliefs as
Jehovah's Witnesses. But Jack doesn't leave her thoughts, and the
pressure to resolve the case—as well as her crumbling marriage—tests
Fiona in ways that will keep readers thoroughly enthralled until the
last stunning page.
Which book are you waiting for?
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