This book is a brilliant, emotionally wrenching new novel from the author of Atonement and Amsterdam.
But it is Fio.
She visits the boy in hospital - an encounter which stirs long-buried feelings in her and powerful new emotions in the boy.
Time is running out.
For religious reasons, a seventeen-year-old boy is refusing the medical treatment that could save his life.
Fiona Maye, a leading High Court judge, renowned for her fierce intelligence and sensitivity is called on to try an urgent case.
This book is a brilliant, emotionally wrenching new novel from the author of Atonement and Amsterdam