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 exp...
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.
IAN McEWAN is the bestselling author of fifteen books, including the novels Sweet Tooth; Solar, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize; On Chesil Beach; Saturday; Atonement, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the W. H. Smith Literary Award; The Comfort of Strangers and Black Dogs, both short-listed for the Booker Prize; Amsterdam, winner of the Booke...
IAN McEWAN is the bestselling author of fifteen books, including the novels Sweet Tooth; Solar, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize; On Chesil Beach; Saturday; Atonement, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the W. H. Smith Literary Award; The Comfort of Strangers and Black Dogs, both short-listed for the Booker Prize; Amsterdam, winner of the Booker Prize; and The Child in Time, winner of the Whitbread Award; as well as the story collections First Love, Last Rites, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and In Between the Sheets. He lives in Gloucestershire
The Children Act，情景和感情描写非常好，其中关于唯物主义或者不严格的客观唯心主义者和严格的客观唯心主义者的拉扯以及世界观的摧毁重塑过程挺有意思。你以为是中年女法官感情生活的失败和无奈与她工作的对照，却突然变成出走的丈夫回归，她case里的少年变成了stalker。宗教和世俗，孰对孰错？
出乎意料地对上了我的电波。法律与宗教的关系很有意思，同时Adam和Fiona之间的纠缠，也像伦敦的雨，the former seeks support from his spiritual lover while the latter is rather sensible, even if she reveals her wavering feelings in a kiss. 唯一不满意的是为...出乎意料地对上了我的电波。法律与宗教的关系很有意思，同时Adam和Fiona之间的纠缠，也像伦敦的雨，the former seeks support from his spiritual lover while the latter is rather sensible, even if she reveals her wavering feelings in a kiss. 唯一不满意的是为啥Fiona又原谅Jack了……我真的会谢(展开)
看前两个Chapter的时候内心还不怎么认同作者的文笔，但慢慢读下去，评价一路走高，为作者塑造人物的能力。耶和华见证人男孩出场的一页之内我就沦陷了： "It was a long thin face, ghoulishly pale, but beautiful, with crescents of bruised purple fading delicately to whi...
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伊恩·麦克尤恩 作者
熊阿姨
上海译文出版社2017版
锐奇学
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考特库
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去年天气旧亭台
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吴玫
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0 有用 知暖 2015-04-23 18:53:26
写得好！喜欢！宗教伦理，家庭伦理
0 有用 哒哒马 2021-11-01 11:01:16
2021.10.31 第一次读英文版的，发现文字真的很美！以前读中文译本大多只读情节的部分。描述了一种缝隙之中、很难定义的感情。
2 有用 不良少女劉蘭蒂 2017-05-15 22:07:34
差不多三口气读完。入戏太快读得我心情好起伏。16岁接触耶和华见证人，读了他们的圣经，也了解了无血手术。宗教和法律的交织好有趣，再加上对Fiona和Jack婚姻的反射，深不见底！
0 有用 一样的耳朵 2017-03-21 10:44:05
从《甜牙》到《儿童法案》，麦克尤恩写女性心理真是刻画入微/故事情节简单清晰，但因为判决留有悬念、婚姻存续留有悬念，就始终吊着一颗心，到最后圣诞演奏会更是让人觉得有什么不得了的大事在酝酿，几乎不带停地一路看完了/那样美好那样年轻那样激情的生命，就这样摧折了，令人唏嘘，Fiona做出的判决挽留了他的生命，却以意想不到的方式让他继重燃希望后体验幻灭，弃世而去/对宗教的探讨也有意思，病孩父母竟然会在知道判... 从《甜牙》到《儿童法案》，麦克尤恩写女性心理真是刻画入微/故事情节简单清晰，但因为判决留有悬念、婚姻存续留有悬念，就始终吊着一颗心，到最后圣诞演奏会更是让人觉得有什么不得了的大事在酝酿，几乎不带停地一路看完了/那样美好那样年轻那样激情的生命，就这样摧折了，令人唏嘘，Fiona做出的判决挽留了他的生命，却以意想不到的方式让他继重燃希望后体验幻灭，弃世而去/对宗教的探讨也有意思，病孩父母竟然会在知道判决后喜极而泣，颠覆了病孩的世界观，没有精神依靠的他只好另寻出路，却无路可走/自带BGM的小说，这句评语说得太好了 (展开)
1 有用 k 2018-06-06 23:18:53
法律的创设不是为了独立于宗教、道德、感情之外，恰恰相反，法律产生于这一切之中。
0 有用 Flora 2024-04-04 16:02:16 新加坡
平平淡淡的叙事最见功力。那个交叉询问法医的笑话也太好笑了
0 有用 Tiffany 2024-03-13 01:18:10 美国
But I was young and foolish… Fiona might be my favorite character of all McEwan’s books
0 有用 ＋ 2024-02-20 11:52:55 美国
Broward County Library 2024年2月19日
0 有用 amstel 2024-02-15 21:03:57 北京
The Children Act，情景和感情描写非常好，其中关于唯物主义或者不严格的客观唯心主义者和严格的客观唯心主义者的拉扯以及世界观的摧毁重塑过程挺有意思。你以为是中年女法官感情生活的失败和无奈与她工作的对照，却突然变成出走的丈夫回归，她case里的少年变成了stalker。宗教和世俗，孰对孰错？
0 有用 Sherbet Lemon 2023-11-26 16:26:14 江西
出乎意料地对上了我的电波。法律与宗教的关系很有意思，同时Adam和Fiona之间的纠缠，也像伦敦的雨，the former seeks support from his spiritual lover while the latter is rather sensible, even if she reveals her wavering feelings in a kiss. 唯一不满意的是为... 出乎意料地对上了我的电波。法律与宗教的关系很有意思，同时Adam和Fiona之间的纠缠，也像伦敦的雨，the former seeks support from his spiritual lover while the latter is rather sensible, even if she reveals her wavering feelings in a kiss. 唯一不满意的是为啥Fiona又原谅Jack了……我真的会谢 (展开)