![]() ![]() In such a place, what will survival mean? ![]() 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. 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. In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Haven, Emma Donoghue’s gripping and moving novel, has her trademark psychological intensity – but this story is like nothing she has ever written before. What they find is the extraordinary island now known as Skellig Michael. ![]() They set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them. Three men vow to leave the world behind them. ![]()
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