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A review by nicki_j
The Children Act by Ian McEwan
4.0
I assumed that the climax of this book would be the main character deciding whether to compel the 17 year old to have the blood transfusion or not. But I was wrong. That decision takes place about half way through. The actual climax of the book was artfully written (the piano scene – excruciating to wait to confirm what the bad news was, though the reader can guess.) There were a few inconsistencies - I think that Fiona could have responded to Adam in a way that maintained her professionalism and it annoyed me that she didn’t.
I listened to the book on CD and I imagined Fiona looking like Julie Andrews in the Princess Diaries. And I thought that the narrator made Adam Henry sound 12, not almost 18. That made his character less convincing and I wonder what I what would have thought of him had I read instead.
I really enjoyed the discussion of difficult legal/moral issues in other cases handled by Fiona and her peers.
I listened to the book on CD and I imagined Fiona looking like Julie Andrews in the Princess Diaries. And I thought that the narrator made Adam Henry sound 12, not almost 18. That made his character less convincing and I wonder what I what would have thought of him had I read instead.
I really enjoyed the discussion of difficult legal/moral issues in other cases handled by Fiona and her peers.