A story of survival set in 600 AD Ireland; a parable of patriarchy, destruction and religion at sea, by Emma Donoghue, the bestselling author of Room.
'Everything a novel should be: compassionate, unpredictable, and questioning. Haven is Donoghue at her strange, unsettling best.' - Maggie O'Farrell, author of Hamnet
Shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award
In seventh-century Ireland, a priest has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks with him, he travels down the Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a new place of worship. Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three men find an impossibly steep, bare island inhabited by tens of thousands of birds, and claim it for God. But in such a place, far from all other humanity, what will survival mean?
'Haven is a beautiful, bold blaze of a book' - Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
'Beautiful and timely' - Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater
'Sinister, heart-wrenching and beautifully written' - The Times
'Combines pressure-cooker intensity and radical isolation, to stunning effect' - Margaret Atwood via Twitter
'Book of the Year' pick in The Irish Times, The Guardian, The Irish Post, RTÉ and The Times.
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Emma Donoghue
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From the bestselling author of The Pull of the Stars and Room
'Beautiful and timely' Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater
Three men vow to leave the world behind them. They set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them. What they find is the extraordinary island now known as Skellig Michael. Haven, Emma Donoghue's gripping and moving novel, has her trademark psychological intensity - but this story is like nothing she has ever written before.
In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks - young Trian and old Cormac - he rows down the river Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a monastery. Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three men find an impossibly steep, bare island, inhabited by tens of thousands of birds, and claim it for God. In such a place, what will survival mean?
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