The Gathering by Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape) has won the Man Booker, overturning pundits who picked a McEwan Jones battle.
The book is described on our library catalogue:
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. This is a novel about how our fate is written in the body, not in the stars.
Read all about it at the Man Booker site and a Q and A session with Anne.
17 October 2007 at 10:32 am
Has anyone read “The Gathering” yet? What did you think? I have put a hold on it at the library so I can find out … Probably a good idea to put your hold on now too