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Awards
Shortlisted for Independent Booksellers' Book of the Year Award: Adults 2008.Winner of Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2007.
Winner of Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year Award 2008.
Shortlisted for RTE Radio 1's The Tubridy Show Listeners' Choice Award 2008.
Shortlisted for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2009.
Shortlisted for Independent Booksellers' Book of the Year Award: Adults' Book of the Year 2008.
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Description
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. "The Gathering" 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.
