The Gathering

Winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize

By: Anne Enright

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Paperback | 1 May 2008 | Edition Number 1

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Winner of the Man Booker Prize

'Witty, original, inventive...utterly compelling' Daily Mail

Winner of the Man Booker Prize

The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother's house, in the winter of 1968.

The Gathering is a novel about love and disappointment, about thwarted lust and limitless desire, and how our fate is written in the body, not in the stars.

'It is clearly the product of a remarkable intelligence, combined with a gift for observation and deduction' A.L. Kennedy, Guardian

Industry Reviews

She beautifully describes the way hurt can be inherited... Enright is a daring writer - witty, original and inventive... Utterly compelling - Eithne Farry Daily Mail

It is clearly the product of a remarkable intelligence, combined with a gift for observation and deduction - A. L. Kennedy Guardian

A welcome return, for this writer, to novel form, and as a fresh, sophisticated take on the ever-popular dysfunctional family saga - Eve Patten Irish Times

Anne Enright has all she needs in terms of imagination and technique and she's a tremendous phrase maker - Adam Mars-Jones Observer

Enright ambushes as memory does, drawing you into an event and then questioning its reality - Sunday Telegraph

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