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Literary Fiction · DarkA woman goes through her brother's wake and remembers what happened in her grandmother's house
The Gathering
by Anne Enright
2007272 pagesModerate readSteady pace
★ Booker Prize, 2007
A sister mourns a brother and revisits her family's past
Veronica Hegarty's brother Liam has died, and she has to bring his body back from England to Ireland. During the wake she remembers her grandmother's house, a family secret and the years that led up to his death. It won the 2007 Booker Prize.
More about this book
Who
Veronica Hegarty and her large Irish family.
World
Dublin and a family home in Ireland.
What makes it different
The narrator isn't sure how much of her memory she can trust.
Feel
Raw and intimate.
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Further reading
- The GatheringWikipedia