The Gathering

Keynote

A special celebratory edition to mark the 21st birthday of Vintage books.

About the Book: The Gathering

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. The Gathering 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.

Reviews

• 'It is clearly the product of a remarkable intelligence, combined with a gift for observation and deduction' - A. L. Kennedy, Guardian
• 'She beautifully describes the way hurt can be inherited… Enright is a daring writer – witty, original and inventive… Utterly compelling' - Eithne Farry, Daily Mail
• '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

Author Biography: Anne Enright

Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has published one collection of stories, The Portable Virgin, which won the Rooney Prize, and three novels, The Wig My Father Wore, What Are You Like? – shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award and winner of the Encore Award – and The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch. Her first work of nonfiction,
Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood, was published in 2004.

Publishing History

First published in hardback by Jonathan

Cape in 2007 9780224078733

Previous Titles

The Portable Virgin (1991) 0099437392

The Wig My Father Wore (1995)

0749397152

What Are You Like? (2000) 0099284340

The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch (2002)

0099436949

Making Babies (2004) 0099437627