Which Anne Enright novel won the 2007 Booker Prize?

Which Anne Enright novel won the 2007 Booker Prize? The answer is The Gathering.

Anne Enright’s The Gathering won the 2007 Booker Prize. The novel begins when nine surviving members of the Hegarty family assemble in Dublin for the wake of Liam, a troubled brother who has died by suicide. His sister Veronica narrates the family’s fractured memories and attempts to understand the experiences that shaped him.

The story moves across generations, linking present grief to an episode involving Liam during the winter of 1968. Enright examines how memory changes under pressure, how families conceal damaging knowledge, and how childhood trauma can echo through adult relationships. Its fragmented, emotionally intense style is part of the novel’s design rather than a conventional chronological account.

The Gathering became the fourth novel by an Irish author to win the prize, following earlier Irish winners such as John Banville and Roddy Doyle. It is often confused with Enright’s later novels The Forgotten Waltz, The Green Road and Actress, none of which won the Booker Prize. The 2007 shortlist also included Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach and Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist.