Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2007
Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has written two collections of stories, published together as Yesterday's Weather, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, and seven novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, The Forgotten Waltz, which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and The Green Road, which was the Bord Gais Energy Novel of the Year and won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction, and in 2018 she received the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature. She is also the recipient of the 2022 Irish Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2024 Writers' Prize for Fiction.
She beautifully describes the way hurt can be inherited... Enright
is a daring writer - witty, original and inventive... Utterly
compelling
*Daily Mail*
It is clearly the product of a remarkable intelligence, combined
with a gift for observation and deduction
*Guardian*
A welcome return, for this writer, to novel form, and as a fresh,
sophisticated take on the ever-popular dysfunctional family
saga
*Irish Times*
Anne Enright has all she needs in terms of imagination and
technique and she's a tremendous phrase maker
*Observer*
Enright ambushes as memory does, drawing you into an event and then
questioning its reality
*Sunday Telegraph*
It seems that large, extended families are brought together for two events, weddings and funerals, and such is the case in Enright's new novel (after The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch) when Veronica, her eight surviving siblings, and their mammy reconnect for her wayward brother Liam's funeral. As Veronica notes early on, "the seeds of my brother's death were sown many years ago," and it is those seeds, which are gradually unearthed as the book moves between past and present, describing the deconstruction of the family, that drove Liam to suicide. From a description of vodka with a "sweet and crotch-like" smell that includes a "waft of earth and adolescence" to souls that, if released, would "slop out over his teeth," Enright's writing is starkly descriptive, using the same coarse imagery that is part of her characters' daily lives. Much is raw in this novel, which is less about individuals than about people's "patience and ability to endure." While readers won't be drawn to the characters, anyone who perseveres will find a story of harsh redemption and of a future found in a child's blue eyes. An acquired taste; recommended for larger and more diverse collections.-Caroline M. Hallsworth, City of Greater Sudbury, Ont. Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.
She beautifully describes the way hurt can be inherited... Enright
is a daring writer - witty, original and inventive... Utterly
compelling -- Eithne Farry * Daily Mail *
It is clearly the product of a remarkable intelligence, combined
with a gift for observation and deduction -- A. L. Kennedy *
Guardian *
A 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 *
Anne Enright has all she needs in terms of imagination and
technique and she's a tremendous phrase maker -- Adam Mars-Jones *
Observer *
Enright ambushes as memory does, drawing you into an event and then
questioning its reality * Sunday Telegraph *
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