"The Children Act" is a novel about a high court judge called Fiona Maye and a 17 year-old Jehovah’s Witness called Adam Henry whose lives cross paths when Adam refuses a blood transfusion on religious grounds and the hospital go to court to seek the right to treat him against his will.
Ian McEwan is very much a product of the new British universities, those popularly known as "plate-glass universities" to distinguish them from the older "red-brick universities" at which writers such...
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Ian McEwan first came to public notice in 1975; he was immediately recognized as an important and new voice on the fictional scene. Along with Martin Amis and Julian Barnes, his contemporaries, he is ...
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Ian (Russell) McEwan