Veronica's brother has died after a long and troubling descent watched by herself and her siblings. She's resigned, her and her eight surviving siblings are coming together to their mother's house to hold the wake and go over all the emotional wreckage that comes to the surface in those times.Veroni...
I love her prose. Her books are never about very much, i.e. nothing much happens, but the way she tells the story of nothing happening is perfect for me. She can really encapsulate what I felt at certain periods of my life.
Stuck at Ch.11 on this. Beautifully constructed prose is a joy to read but so far am finding this to be a somewhat bleak read. Perhaps it does not suit New Year and dismal weather blues.
Unfortunately, The Gathering didn’t really do it for me. The Irish setting of the book was played up a lot on the cover and in some of the endorsements on the back of the book, but the Hegartys didn’t seem to embody the “Irish family” as claimed. Now, to be fair, I don’t exactly have a whole lot of ...
The gathering was the winner of the Man Booker prize in 2007 and I was really looking forward to reading it as it was about a large Irish family coming to terms with the suicide of one of the family members and the blurb had the making of an excellenct story, however I found the book confusing as it...
I can see the reviews are polarized. I'm only about 40 pages in, but suspect its my kind of book. I'm loving it. We're reading it for next month's book club and it will interesting to see how the group responds to it.Finished it. I suspect not everyone in the book club will, but I thought it an ver...
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