I do think writing is about desire...it’s an emotion, a movement, a want

Sue Leonard talks to Booker prize winner Anne Enright about her work.

A YEAR or two ago, Anne Enright was sitting in a London hotel eavesdropping. She heard a discussion about books, and on the fact that nobody had written a good book after they’d won the Man Booker prize.

“Everyone expects that the next book will be harder,” says Anne, when we meet in the Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire.