The Gathering

p>b>'Witty, original, inventive...utterly compelling' i>Daily Mail/i>/b>br>b>br>Winner of the Man Booker Prize/b>br>br> The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. 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.br>br> i>The Gathering /i>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.br>br>b>'It is clearly the product of a remarkable intelligence, combined with a gift for observation and deduction' A.L. Kennedy, i>Guardian/i>/b>/p> p>b>'Witty, original, inventive...utterly compelling' i>Daily Mail/i>/b>br>b>br>Winner of the Man Booker Prize/b>br>br> The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. 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.br>br> i>The Gathering /i>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.br>br>b>'It is clearly the product of a remarkable intelligence, combined with a gift for observation and deduction' A.L. Kennedy, i>Guardian/i>/b>/p>