The Gathering Portugal Little Richard made himself a

Little Richard made himself a star through sheer talent and personality

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The Gathering Portugal Little Richard made himself aWinner of the Man Booker Prize 'Witty, original, inventive utterly compelling' Daily Mail Winner of the Man Booker Prize 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