What Are You Like

This book is so sad that you want to laugh out loud. It deals with areas of experience and patterns of living that no one else has noticed – Colm TóibínHauntingly told * Sunday Times *Anne Enright is a very original writer - a spry surrealist who challenges the world with extraordinary, lancing sentences…so intelligent and so controlled – James Wood * Guardian *

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.