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The Gathering

The Gathering

Anne Enright (born 1962)

English editions

Written in English

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Veronica Hegarty is thirty-nine, married with children, and was the sibling closest to Liam, a heavy drinker whose body has been recovered from the sea off Brighton. She goes to England to bring him home, and the sprawling Hegarty clan assembles in Dublin for the wake. As tempers flare, Veronica broods on her anger at a mother who never stood up to anything and on her own unhappy marriage. She is convinced that drink was not what destroyed Liam: the cause lies in an event at their grandmother Ada's house in 1968, when they were children, a secret only she shares with him. To understand how three generations came to this, she imagines her way back into Ada's life.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Genres
Family (assigned by AI)
Set in
Ireland, United Kingdom
First published
2007
Author's age
45 when first published
ISBN

9780802170392 (Black Cat, United States)

9780224078733 (Jonathan Cape, United Kingdom)

9780099501633 (Vintage, United Kingdom)

9780802164384 (Grove Press, United States)

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