![]() I didn’t enjoy it, which is a shame as it’s a book that’s been on my shelves since 2008 and one I chose to read this month as part of Reading Ireland Month, an event to ‘˜to celebrate the wealth and breadth and general awesomeness of Irish cultural life.’ It’s a dark and disturbing novel about a dysfunctional family. I’m sorry to say that I think The Gathering is one of the most dreary books I’ve read. The Gathering is a novel about love and disappointment, about thwarted lust and limitless desire, and how our fate is written in the body, not in the stars. ![]() It wasn’t the drink that killed him ‘“ although that certainly helped ‘“ it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother’s house, in the winter of 1968. ![]() The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. The Gathering by Anne Enright is her fourth book. ![]()
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