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Man Booker Award, Fiction, 2007 The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan get in Dublin for the wake with their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that wiped out him - although that certainly helped - it was what took place to him as a young man in his grandmother's house, in the winter of 1968. His sister Veronica was there then, as she is now: keeping the useless man company, simply for another little while. The Gathering is a family group epic, condensed and clarified through the impressive zoom lens of Anne Enright's unblinking attention. Additionally it is a sexual record: tracing the type of damage and redemption through three years - starting with the grandmother, Ada Merriman - showing how stories warp and family secrets fester. That is a book about love and disappointment, about thwarted lust and limitless desire, and how our fate is written in the body, not in the celebrities.
