 It later emerged that Enright had denied Ian McEwan a second Booker Prize; she had simply been the compromise decision reached due to disagreements between the deciders over the merits of McEwan's "On Chesil Beach" (whether it actually qualified as a novel or was a different category of book, the novella).Although it received mostly favourable reviews on its first publication, sales of "The Gathering" had been modest before it was named as one of the six books on the Booker Prize shortlist in September 2007.After winning the prize, sales more than doubled compared to sales before the announcement.