Exclusive interview with Booker Prize winner Irish author Anne Enright

Enright talks about her past successes and tells us about her eagerly anticipated new novel, 'The Forgotten Waltz'

“How you voted or what country you were in did not make a blind bit of difference -- well, if you were in Germany that probably helps. But it wasn’t a problem of national identity. We could have done it all better God knows, but I’m not bitter,” she says with a bitter laugh.

The fierce little tragedy in which Gina (and in a way Ireland) play their parts in The Forgotten Waltz, and the speed with which her life changes due to it astonishes her.

“I just can't believe it,” she writes. “That all you have to do is sleep with somebody and get caught and you never have to see your in-laws again. Ever. Pfffft! Gone. It’s the nearest thing to magic I have yet found.”

Enright’s book is filled with such observations, and although The Forgotten Waltz wears its ambitions very lightly, the cumulative effect is dazzling. It will become a classic.

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