Book description
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. Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works.
She has published one collection of stories, The Portable Virgin
, which won the Rooney Prize, and three novels, The Wig My Father Wore
, What Are You Like?
- shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award and winner of the Encore
Award - and The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch
. Her first work of non-fiction, Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood
, was published in 2004.
