Anne Enright’s story of fracture and family, selfishness and compassion - a novel about the gaps in the human heart and how we learn to fill them
Anne Enright
Anne Enright has written two collections of stories, one book of non-fiction and six novels, including The Gathering, which won the Booker Prize 2007
Other novels include 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.
The Gathering
Winner of The Booker Prize 2007
- By
- Anne Enright
- Published by
- Jonathan Cape
A family epic about love and disappointment, condensed and clarified through the remarkable lens of Anne Enright's unblinking eye
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