On Booker Beach

Dublin writer Anne Enright’s bleak and insightful novel The Gathering has reinvigorated the contest for the Man Booker prize.

Anne Enright tried hard to do something normal the day this year’s Man Booker Prize shortlist nominations were being announced.

She thought she might go to a yoga class or have a swim in the sea. In the end, September 6 turned out to be more difficult than she had thought. Her husband Martin, ...