. >> well, this particular judge, high court judge, fiona maye, the protagonist of your book wrestles with it especially, circumstances in her own life, the dissolution of her marriage, the fact that she is childless and forms an attachment emotionally to this kid, sort of everything about her life sets her up as a really interesting person to be put in the position of deciding the outcome of this case. >> she's a compassionate but rather self contained person. she's very rational. but like all rational people, when it comes to affairs in their own life. >> yeah. >> she's somewhat unhinged. [ laughter ] she's been a judge and before that a barrister, she would have been telling people, it's the great caliche of divorcing couples, do not change the locks on your house, you're on the wrong side of the law immediately if you exclude someone else's rightful entry to their property. >> but of course that's what she does. >> that's what she does, she's down there swimming with the desolate tide, but more importantly once she's in court, hearing the arguments from both sides, she makes a dec