The Gathering by Anne Enright

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. His sister Veronica was there then, as she is now, keeping the dead man company, just for another little while. 'The Gathering' is a family epic, condensed and clarified through the lens of Anne Enright's unblinking eye. It is also a sexual history: tracing the line of hurt and redemption through three generations - starting with the grandmother Ada Merriman - showing how memories warp and family secrets fester. This 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. This 2007 Jonathan Cape Paperback is in fair condition. Foxing.

ISBN: 9780224078740 SKU: 1337439 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.

Location: Fiction