The highly anticipated novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Pull of the Stars and Room'This is Donoghue at her strange unsettling best.' - Maggie O'Farrell author of Hamnet'Combines pressure-cooker intensity and radical isolation to stunning effect.' - Margaret Atwood via TwitterIn 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 travels 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. Their extraordinary landing spot is now known as Skellig Michael. But in such a place far from all other humanity what will survival mean?Haunting moving and vividly told Haven displays Emma Donoghue’s trademark world-building and psychological intensity - but this tale is like nothing she has ever written before . . .One of The Times Books of the Year 2022One of Easons 'Favourite Book of the Year 2022'.The Irish Times 'Books to Look Out For in 2022'.
