It is everything a novel should be: compassionate, unpredictable, and questioning. This evocative historical novel also works as a cautionary tale about the dangers of religious control.Donoghue's readers and all lovers of thought-provoking literary fiction will be looking for this quietly dramatic tale."- Booklist, "This book kept me up half the night - I was unable to put it down, and read it in one spellbound gulp.
As always, Donoghue extracts realistic emotions from characters interacting within close quarters and delicately explores the demands of faith. Haven is Donoghue at her strange, unsettling best."- Maggie O'Farrell, author of Hamnet, "Donoghue's ( The Pull of the Stars, 2020) prose glimmers with images of the pristine natural world, including many varieties of sea birds, but as Artt's sanctimonious piety increasingly challenges common sense, Cormac and Trian wonder if their vows of obedience will doom them. It is both a story about three men of God surviving with almost nothing on an island, and another about dictatorship, isolation, true fraternity, love, the nature of faith and man's place in the natural world."- Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, "This book kept me up half the night-I was unable to put it down, and read it in one spellbound gulp.
Lyrical and then visceral, appearing at one moment tranquil and another so intense it's like being bitten and clawed. The island setting and the characters stayed with me long after I finished reading."- Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater, "What a beautiful, intense, blazing, richly-woven yet spartan and unsparing book this is. Donoghue is good at endings, as readers of 'Room' know, and here again she metes out narrative justice with a firm hand." - Marion Winik, Minneapolis Star Tribune, " Haven is a beautiful and timely novel about isolation, passion and the conflict between obedience and self-preservation. A strange turn of events having to do with Trian's secret brings the book to its climax. What is Divine Grace? Purity of soul? Virtue? Not what they think." - "Donoghue's characterizations of the three men, her vivid imagining of the measures they must take to survive, and her beautiful descriptions of the landscape and wildlife - puffins galore - make this book readable even for those who don't care much about medieval Christianity. #EmmaDonoghue (ROOM) combines pressure-cooker intensity + radical isolation, to stunning effect.
In 7th C, #Ireland, three men set sail to a bird-thick island to find God.
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