Browsing Books by Books Like The Children Act

The Caretaker (2013)
A debut novel by an award-nominated international writer follows the efforts of disgraced Indian Arm...

The Luminaries (2013)
From the author of The Rehearsal and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, a breathtaking feat of st...

Speaking from Among the Bones (2013)
When the tomb of St. Tancred is opened at a village church in Bishop's Lacey, its shocking contents ...

Digging to America (2006)
Two families awaiting the arrival of their adopted infant daughters from Korea meet at the airport. ...

The Round House (2012)
When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a reservation in North Dakota, slips into ...

One Good Turn (2006)
Millionaire ex-detective Jackson Brodie follows his girlfriend to Edinburgh for the famous arts fest...

The Paris Wife (2011)
Follows the life of Ernest Hemingway's first wife, Hadley, as she navigates 1920s Paris. By the auth...

The Imperfectionists (2010)
Preoccupied by personal challenges while running a struggling newspaper in Rome, an obituary writer ...

The Cuckoo's Calling (2014)
When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony, it is assumed that she...

City of Women (2012)
Hiding her clandestine activities behind the persona of a model Nazi soldier's wife at the height of...

Under the Wide and Starry Sky (2013)
Imagines the unconventional love affair of Scottish literary giant Robert Louis Stevenson and Americ...

One Was a Soldier (2011)
On a warm September evening in the Millers Kill community center, five veterans sit down in rickety ...

Caught (2014)
Escaping from prison after being sentenced for drug charges, 25-year-old David Slaney adopts numerou...

Napoleon's Buttons (2004)
Examines the roles that the molecular properties of such items as the birth control pill, caffeine, ...

State of Wonder (2011)
A researcher at a pharmaceutical company, Marina Singh journeys into the heart of the Amazonian delt...

The Widower's Tale (2010)
Enjoying an active but lonely rural life, 70-year-old Percy haplessly allows a progressive preschool...