The Gathering is a novel by the Irish author Anne Enright. It is Enright's fourth book. It won the 2007 Man Booker Prize. It had been an outsider to win the prize, but was eventually chosen unanimously.

The novel is a saga about an Irish family set in Ireland and England.It begins with the suicide of Liam Hegarty. His family gather in Dublin for his wake. Liam's sister Veronica, the novel's narrator, looks through her family's history to try and make sense of his death. In the process she uncovers uncomfortable truths about her family. Enright described the book as "...the intellectual equivalent of a Hollywood weepie."

Anne Enright (born 1962 in Dublin) is a Booker Prize-winning Irish author. She has published essays, short stories, a non-fiction book and four novels.

She was educated at Lester Pearson United World College of the Pacific in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, at Trinity College Dublin, and at the University of East Anglia, where she earned an M.A. in the creative writing course and was taught by Angela Carter and Malcolm Bradbury. For six years, she was a television producer and director for RTÉ in Dublin.She began writing full-time in 1993.

Her writings have appeared in several magazines, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review and Granta, and collected in The Portable Virgin, her 1991 work which won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature that year. Her novels include The Wig My Father Wore, What Are You Like?, which won the Royal Society of Authors Encore Prize and was short-listed for the Whitbread Novel Award, The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch and The Gathering (2007). Occasional essays appear in the London Review of Books, the Dublin Review, and the Irish Times. Her non-fiction book about motherhood, Making Babies, was published in 2005.

She was once a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4 and RTÉ, and now reviews for The Guardian. On 16 October 2007 she was awarded the 2007 Man Booker Prize for her novel The Gathering which includes a £50,000 prize

She is married to Martin Murphy, and lives in Bray, County Wicklow.