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Anne Enright - 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鈥檚 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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50 minutes

Last on

Thu 6 Oct 2016 01:06GMT

Broadcasts

  • Sun 2 Oct 2016 03:06GMT
  • Sun 2 Oct 2016 13:06GMT
  • Wed 5 Oct 2016 08:06GMT
  • Wed 5 Oct 2016 23:06GMT
  • Thu 6 Oct 2016 01:06GMT

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