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Ian McEwan

The Children Act

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  • Habitante de libroцитируетв прошлом году
    When a court determines any question with respect to … the upbringing of a child … the child’s welfare shall be the court’s paramount consideration.
    —SECTION 1(A), THE CHILDREN ACT, 1989
  • Анастасия Колупаевацитирует2 года назад
    be set as a choice of the lesser evil
  • Анастасия Колупаевацитирует2 года назад
    , the nation at large had a view.
  • Анастасия Колупаевацитирует2 года назад
    He turned and came toward her with his undiluted drink. The Jewish girls, Rachel and Nora, must hover behind her like Christian angels and wait. Their secular god had troubles of her own
  • Анастасия Колупаевацитирует2 года назад
    She had the power to remove a child from an unkind parent and she sometimes did. But remove herself from an unkind husband? When she was weak and desolate? Where was her protective judge?
  • b1826388944цитирует3 года назад
    “For the last time, Jack. Are you seeing her?
  • b1826388944цитирует3 года назад
    peer over a cliff edge.
  • b1826388944цитирует3 года назад
    left their mark on her,
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    Life accelerating to people a small village clustered on a baby grand. She and Jack had contributed nothing, no one, beyond family reunions, near-weekly birthday presents, multigenerational holidays in the cheaper sort of castle. In their apartment, they hosted much family. At the end of the hallway was a walk-in cupboard filled with folded-up cot, high chair and playpen, and three wicker baskets of chewed and fading toys in readiness for the next addition. And this summer’s castle, ten miles north of Ullapool, awaited their decision. According to the ill-printed brochure, a moat, a working drawbridge
  • b1826388944цитирует3 года назад
    would be grave and rational when she would have preferred him loudly in the wrong.
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