The Gathering
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  • Published: 1 May 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099501633
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $26.00

The Gathering

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1 May 2008
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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
  • Published: 1 May 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099501633
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $26.00
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About the author

Anne Enright

Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has written two collections of stories, published together as Yesterday’s Weather, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, and six novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, The Forgotten Waltz, which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and The Green Road, which was the Bord Gáis Energy Novel of the Year and won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction, and in 2018 she received the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature.

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