Anne Enright has taken this year's prestigious award for her "exhilarating bleak" family epic, The Gathering. As you recall, I was strongly backing Ian McEwan to win for the wondrous
On Chesil Beach, whilst
The Gathering was merely a long-shot outsider. Well, at least this announcement doesn't fall into the hands of predictability, whilst simultaneously fuelling the
conspiracy about the award and the sea. Interesting. That reminds me; here's
a lovely story about the illustrated edition of the 2002 winner,
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel, which
I mentioned some time ago.
