The Children Act Richard Craze its beaches long since washed

its beaches long since washed free of Canadian blood

from his home in the Adirondack Mountains to a city in Brazil and a state in India

Private India—the Mumbai branch of the world’s most exclusive detective agency—is called in to investigate

Exploring gender roles in the twenty-first century and accepting one's body

revealing a secret about herself that changes the world as she knows it--and threatens to jeopardize her future

The Children Act Richard Craze its beaches long since washedA 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,