{"product_id":"the-gathering-9780099501633","title":"The Gathering","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Enright\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has written two collections of stories, published together as \u003ci\u003eYesterday's Weather\u003c\/i\u003e, one book of non-fiction, \u003ci\u003eMaking Babies\u003c\/i\u003e, and eight novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Gathering\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize. Other award include the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for The Forgotten Waltz, the Irish Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award and Novel of the Year (which she has won twice), the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature and the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Letters. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction. Most recently she won the 2024 Writers' Prize for Fiction and the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe beautifully describes the way hurt can be inherited... Enright is a daring writer - witty, original and inventive... Utterly compelling -- Eithne Farry * Daily Mail *\u003cbr\u003eIt is clearly the product of a remarkable intelligence, combined with a gift for observation and deduction -- A. L. Kennedy * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eA welcome return, for this writer, to novel form, and as a fresh, sophisticated take on the ever-popular dysfunctional family saga -- Eve Patten * Irish Times *\u003cbr\u003eAnne Enright has all she needs in terms of imagination and technique and she's a tremendous phrase maker -- Adam Mars-Jones * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eEnright ambushes as memory does, drawing you into an event and then questioning its reality * Sunday Telegraph *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732251586903,"sku":"9780099501633","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099501633.jpg?v=1719996143","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-gathering-9780099501633","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}