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.
- ISBN10 0099563150
- ISBN13 9780099563150
- Publish Date 4 August 2011 (first published 3 May 2007)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 January 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Vintage
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 272
- Language English