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Anne Enright talks to Julia Wheeler

The Wren, The Wren

Hay Festival 2024, 

Plunge into a meditation on love and generational trauma with the author of the Man Booker Prize-winning The Gathering, in conversation with journalist, Julia Wheeler. Nell is a young woman with adventure on her mind, but as she sets out into the world, she finds her family history hard to escape. For her mother, Carmel, Nell’s leaving home opens a space in her heart, where the turmoil of a lifetime begins to churn. And across the generations falls the long shadow of Carmel’s famous father, an Irish poet of beautiful words and brutal actions. Dublin-based author Anne Enright was the first Laureate for Irish Fiction, and in 2018 received the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature.

Anne Enright talks to Julia Wheeler