The Gathering

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 *

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 eight novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize. Other awards include the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for The Forgotten Waltz, the Irish Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award and Novel of the Year (which she has won twice), the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature and the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Letters. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction. Most recently she won the 2024 Writers’ Prize for Fiction and the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction.

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