The island setting and the characters stayed with me long after I finished reading."- Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater " setting proves to be as stark and claustrophobic as that of her celebrated 'Room'.Donoghue excels in creating not just a world but a worldview that is far removed from our own.a bold, thoughtful novel, whose austerity matches its setting." - Financial Times "A surprisingly compelling and suspenseful adventure.a marvel of detailed, intimate storytelling.In fact, this short novel is really a parable about the narcissism of the religious fanatic, and the contrasting endurance of human communities. As the men maintain routines of worship in the face of futility, the novel asks whether they should be answerable to God or to one another."- The New Yorker, "Briefly Noted" " Haven is a beautiful and timely novel about isolation, passion and the conflict between obedience and self-preservation. Donoghue evokes their devotional seriousness with a descriptive texture that is equally alert to a flock of cormorants taking flight 'by some collusion, ' or to the whittling of a makeshift pipe. Shelf Talker: Emma Donoghue's 12th novel is an intense character study of three seventh-century monks who found a monastery on a remote Irish island."- Shelf Awareness "In this novel of religious discovery, set in the seventh century, three Irish monks make a fraught journey from their monastery to Great Skellig, a craggy rock formation in the Atlantic that resembles 'the most gigantic of cathedrals.' Switching perspectives among the monks, the narrative tracks their escalating discord as they endeavor to construct a new monastic settlement there.
A powerful study of religious obsession and confinement, this is one for readers of Matrix and To Paradise. What is Divine Grace? Purity of soul? Virtue? Not what they think." - ""Deliciously claustrophobic.Donoghue (The Wonder Frog Music) excels at creating isolated atmospheres and examining the dynamic of small casts of characters-as in Room or The Pull of the Stars.Haven may be just one letter away from heaven, but this island community looks less like either and more like a prison as time goes on.
#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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