The Gathering Av Anne Enright

<p><b>''Witty, original, inventive...utterly compelling'' <i>Daily Mail</i></b><br><b><br>Winner of the Man Booker Prize</b><br><br> 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.<br><br> <i>The Gathering </i>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.<br><br><b>''It is clearly the product of a remarkable intelligence, combined with a gift for observation and deduction'' A.L. Kennedy, <i>Guardian</i></b></p>