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Anne Enright is the multi award winning Irish author of seven novels, collections of short stories, a non-fiction work about the birth of her two children, and she was the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction.
The Gathering, won the Booker Prize in 2007 - about a woman trying to make sense of her brother's suicide as the large, dysfunctional family gather for his funeral.
Anne Enright's latest book also shines a strong light on family relationships.
In The Wren,The Wren, a famous Irish poet leaves his wife and two daughters - that abandonment rippling through the life of one of his daughters, and in turn, her daughter.
The book has won high praise - fellow Irish writer Sally Rooney, author of Normal People, calls it "magnificent", while The Times calls Enright "one of our greatest living novelists".
She speaks with Kathryn Ryan from her home in Dublin.