Brown Bag Lunch book Group: THE CHILDREN ACT by Ian McEwan

Bring your own lunch and join an afternoon book discussion group at the Library. Books for loan will be available one month in advance. To register, e-mail mgreenblatt @wlsmail.org or call the library at 914-941-7072.

THE CHILDREN ACT - Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge who presides over cases in the family court. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude, and sensitivity. But her professional success belies private sorrow and domestic strife. There is the lingering regret of her childlessness, and now her marriage of thirty years is in crisis. At the same time, she is called on to try an urgent case: Adam, a beautiful seventeen-year-old boy, is refusing for religious reasons the medical treatment that could save his life, and his devout parents echo his wishes. Time is running out. Should the secular court overrule sincerely expressed faith? Int he course of reaching a decision, Fiona visits Adam in the hospital -- an encounter that stirs long-buried feelings in her and powerful new emotions in the boy. Her judgement has momentous consequences for them both.