![]() ![]() ![]() Here Veronica Hegarty loses her already lost, lovely alcoholic brother Liam. Then comes the conclusion, where present and future are reformed in the light of histories that are suddenly newly perceived. The plot, shaped around a protagonist who undergoes a shock, is knocked back physically and psychologically into past times and past places. The Gathering, her fourth novel, is ostensibly a simple thing. Whatever she'd list as her motivations, Enright has thus far produced essays, short stories and three novels, all alive with that lovely thing - a fully realised voice: muscular, agile, sometimes witty, sometimes hallucinogenic, often dark and lyrical in a quiet and horribly skilful way. Not that you'll necessarily find her work eager to please - nothing so easy or fawning: it's more the end result of what I'd guess is an almost involuntary drive to do justice to both the work and the reader. ![]() To tell the story is not enough - it has to be well told. Anne Enright cares about being right with words. ![]()
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