#24 The Gathering, by Anne Enright

 



Booker Prize:  WINNER 2007

Plot Time and Place: Dublin, present day

Opening sentence:  "I would like to write down what happened in my grandmother's house the summer I was eight or nine, but I am not sure if it really did happen."

Plot summary:  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 - it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother's house, in the winter of 1968.

Review:  I liked it. It's very easy to read. I enjoyed the themes of sadness, grief, family, memory, sibling relationships.

Rating:   4/5



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