Surprise winner of the Man Booker Prize 2007. A compelling family drama exploring family relationships following a tragic death. Descriptive, unsettling and inventive.
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'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
The Gathering features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Family Drama, Romance / Relationship Stories, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
The Gathering is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Gathering was written by Anne Enright and published by Vintage an imprint of Random House
The Gathering has 260 pages
£8.99