I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. 'The Gathering' did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time. Anne Enright bigbookbooker share on social
For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time. Anne Enright bookdamnkid Change image and share on social
You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a whole new job. You have to be the thing, right? So instead of writing the story, you somehow are the story. And that I found that sort of terrible. Anne Enright bookbookerfind share on social
