The Gathering

Anne Enright · 2007 CE · Novel · English · Contemporary

Veronica Hegarty travels to Brighton to bring home the body of her brother Liam, who has drowned himself, and during the wake she tries to reconstruct what happened in their grandmother's house in the 1960s. Her account of a large Dublin family keeps contradicting itself. It won the 2007 Booker Prize.

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