"He's fine. He's fine,' he kept saying as the baby became ever more cranky and bewildered; screaming in terror if she tried to put him down.'Why should he be unhappy?' she wanted to say. 'He has had so few days in this world. Why should the unhappiness start here?"
Anne Enright is an Irish novelist known for literary fiction and essays. She won the Booker Prize for The Gathering and has been a major voice in contemporary Irish literature.