Books by Anne Enright

In three urgent pieces of non-fiction Anne Enright explores speech and silence in the lives of Irish women.

*LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2020*From the Booker-winning Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truths. This is the story of Irish theatre legend Katherine O'Dell, as told by her daughter Norah.

Babies: our biggest mystery and our most natural consequence, our hardest test and our enduring love. The author describes the intensity, bewilderment and extravagant happiness of her experience of having babies, from the exhaustion of early pregnancy to first smiles and becoming acquainted with the long reaches of the night.

Hanna, Dan, Constance and Emmet return to the west coast of Ireland for a final family Christmas in the home their mother is about to sell. As the feast turns to near painful comedy, a last, desperate act from Rosaleen - a woman who doesn't quite know how to love her children - forces them to confront the weight of family ties and their home.

Shortlisted for The Orange Prize for Fiction If it hadn't been for the child then none of this might have happened. She saw me kissing her father. She saw her father kissing me. The fact that a child got mixed up in it all made us feel that it mattered, that there was no going back.

Presents a series of stories about women stirred, bothered, or fascinated by men they cannot understand, or understand too well. This book features characters that are haunted by the ghosts of the lives they might have led - lit by new flames, old flames, and flames that are guttering out.

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.

Discover Man Booker winner Anne Enright's first collection of short stories. 'Elegant, scrupulously poised, always intelligent and, not least, original' Angela Carter The characters in Anne Enright's fierce and witty first collection of stories stand at an oblique angle to society.

She has the same smile, but she is wearing the wrong clothes: she is the same, only different. Anne Enright's astonishing novel moves between Dublin, New York and London, following the lives of the real Maria and the girl in the picture.

Presents a funny record of the journey from early pregnancy to age two. Written in dispatches, typed with a sleeping baby in the room, the author has the rush of good news - full of the mess, the glory, and the raw shock of it all. She also bears a visceral and dreamlike witness to the first years of parenthood.

'The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch is as sensuous and polished as an ornate painting' Daily TelegraphBeautiful Irishwoman Eliza Lynch became briefly, in the 1860s, the richest woman in the world.

Meanwhile as her TV day job on the 'Love Quiz' begins to spiral out of control, on the other side of her life is her father, benign, bewigged and stricken by a stroke -apparently mad but probably the sanest person in her life.

Sammenkomsten er en familiesaga af den mere barske slags. Romanen foregår hhv. i Irland og England og skildrer en irsk familie gennem tre generationer. Titlen refererer til det møde mellem de forskellige familiemedlemmer, der finder sted i anledning af et dødsfald og en begravelse. Liam Hegarty var alkoholiker og begik selvmord i havet ud for Brighton. Hans mor og hans ni efterladte søskende samles i Dublin for at sørge over ham. Fortælleren er hans søster Veronica på 39 år, som er den i søskendeflokken, der stod ham nærmest. Opholdet i Dublin giver hende anledning til at gennemgå familiens turbulente historie i et forsøg på at forstå Liams død. Han døde af druk, ja, men hvorfor drak han? Veronica er overbevist om, at grunden til hans alkoholisme skal findes i hændelser fra barndommen, nærmere bestemt noget der skete, da hun og Liam en overgang boede hos deres bedstemor i 1968. Sammenkomsten er en klog og indsigtsfuld fortælling om familien og alt det gode og onde, den kan rumme. Anne Enright har selv karakteriseret romanen som "...det intellektuelle sidestykke til en Hollywood-tåreperser." Anne Enright (1962) debuterede med sin første roman,The Wig My Father Wore, i 1995. The Gathering er hendes fjerde roman, og hendes første på dansk, og i oktober 2007 fik hun Man Booker-prisen for den. Forfatterskabet er et af de vigtige og vægtige i moderne irsk litteratur, og Anne Enright er bl.a. kendt og berømmet for sit altid skarpe - og ærlige - blik på mennesker og relationerne mellem dem.