Ian McEwan is a critically acclaimed author of short stories and novels for adults, as well as The Daydreamer, a children's novel illustrated by Anthony Browne. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include...
The Children ActThis book is a brilliant, emotionally wrenching new novel from the author of Atonement and Amsterdam. Fiona Maye, a leading High Court judge, renowned for her fierce intelligence and sensitivity is called on to try an urgent case. For religious reasons, a seventeen-year-old ...
书名:The Children Act《儿童法案》 英文简介:A fiercely intelligent, well-respected High Court judge in London faces a morally ambiguous case while her own marriage crumbles in a novel that will keep readers thoroughly enthralled until the last stunning page. Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in ...
August 9, 2019David NusairC,Review0 Based on a novel by Ian McEwan,The Children Actfollows British judge Fiona Maye (Emma Thompson) as she rules over a case involving a dying teenager (Fionn Whitehead’s Adam) whose religious parents are preventing him from receiving life-saving treatment. Fi...
"Fans of Ian McEwan are going to loveThe Children Act... Both heartbreaking and funny at the same time." --The Vancouver Sun "A svelte novel as crisp and spotless as a priest's collar. . . . Another notable volume from one of the finest writers alive." --The Washington Post "...
Special Presentations Adapted from a Booker Prize-winning novel,The Children Actis certainly layered with meaning and importance. It’s clear from how the cast are acting really hard at all times and all the pregnant silences that what we are watching is supposed to be taken deeply, deeply ser...
Legal MelodramaThe Children ActShowcases a Stellar Thompson High Court Judge Fiona Maye (Emma Thompson) specializes in juvenile cases, especially as they pertain to the medical profession. The latest case she is presiding over is one of her most challenging, 17-year-old teenager Adam Henry (Fion...
这或许是我们这群因为无翼而双脚紧缚于大地之上的人,所能完成的最悲哀和最高尚之事了吧。 儿童法案 The Children Act (2017) Director: Richard Eyre Screenwriter: Ian McEwan (novel & screenplay) Cast: Emma Thompson, Fionn Whitehead, Stanley Tucci...
引自第1页 What I hate most about this movie/novel. I expected what happened between Adam and Fiona would remain a secret, but the poor boy ended up merely an "incident" during the crisis of Fiona's marriage. How unfair it is! 20190221...
Smart, elegant, and deeply moving, The Children Act stars two-time Academy Award-winner Emma Thompson in a powerful and riveting performance as Fiona Maye, a British High Court judge who, in the midst of a marital crisis, must rule on a life-changing legal case concerning the survival of ...