THE GATHERING
By Anne Enright
Jonathan Cape. £12.99
ISBN 978-0-224-07873-3
The Bookies were disappointed by the Booker Prize this year. They were expecting good old Ian McEwan or at least Lloyd Jones (no connection) to win, but instead a little-known Irish novelist took the prize.
Before she was on the long list Enright had sold five copies, now she’s in the windows of W.H. Smith’s and being bought by everyone with an interest in literature, though I wonder how many of those thousands of copies sold will be finished.
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