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World Book Club: Anne Enright - The Gathering

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Anne Enright

01/10/2016 GMT

Anne Enright - The Gathering

BBC World Service - World Book Club, Anne Enright - The Gathering

Anne Enright discusses her Man Booker Prize winning novel The Gathering.

Anne Enright discusses her Man Booker Prize winning novel The Gathering with Harriett Gilbert and the World Book Club audience.

This month World Book Club talks to the acclaimed Irish writer Anne Enright about her poignant Booker Prize-winning novel The Gathering.

In it Veronica, one of the nine surviving Hegarty siblings, is bringing her brother Liam home to Dublin to bury. He walked to his death in the sea in Brighton, his brain muddled by drink, his pockets filled with stones. 

As the Hegarty clan gathers to mourn at Liam’s funeral Veronica retraces the troubled history and the murky family secrets that have festered over the years and brought tragedy in their wake. A novel about love, death and the darkness of thwarted desire The Gathering has won admirers the world over.

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