Anne Enright takes the Booker http://books.guardian.co.uk/manbooker2007/story/0,,2192570,00.html Outsider beats favourites to scoop prize for tale of dysfunctional family life set in Ireland Charlotte Higgins, arts correspondent Tuesday October 16, 2007 Guardian Unlimited Against all the odds, and seeing off competition from favourites Ian McEwan and Lloyd Jones, rank outsider Anne Enright was tonight awarded the Man Booker prize for her "powerful, uncomfortable and even at times angry book" The Gathering. ............................... Disappointed though he will doubtless be, Ian McEwan can at least take comfort from his incredibly healthy sales. On Chesil Beach is far outselling the other books on the shortlist combined (not to mention the surge of sales for Atonement in the wake of Joe Wright's film). Sales figures of the other books, by contrast, exemplify the tough climate for literary fiction in the marketplace - and Enright's book has so far shifted just 3,253 copies. The latest figures from Nielsen BookScan show that the McEwan has sold a total of 120,362; Nicola Barker's Darkmans, 11,097; Mister Pip, 5,170; Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist 4,425, and Indra Sinha's Animal's People 2,589. This year's judges, chaired by Davies, are poet Wendy Cope, author and journalist Giles Foden, biographer and critic Ruth Scurr, and actor Imogen Stubbs. Last year's Man Booker prize-winner was Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss. --

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