SYP Ireland’s Christmas book club and social will be held in-person at the Hyatt Hotel bar in Dublin on Thursday 14th December. Everyone is very welcome to join the committee for some festive drinks and a chat about our December book club pick, which is The Gathering by Anne Enright.

The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn’t the drink that killed him – although that certainly helped – it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother’s house, in the winter of 1968. ​The Gathering is a novel about love and disappointment, about thwarted lust and limitless desire, and how our fate is written in the body, not in the stars.