Emma Donoghue Haven

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Code 9781529091168

Haunting, moving and vividly told, Haven displays Emma Donoghue's trademark world-building and psychological intensity.

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Binding: Paperback

Date Published: 04 May 2023

'A remarkably engrossing tale'
- The Mail on Sunday

'This book kept me up half the night - I was unable to put it down, and read it in one spellbound gulp. It is everything a novel should be: compassionate, unpredictable, and questioning. Haven is Donoghue at her strange, unsettling best.'
- Maggie O'Farrell, author of Hamnet

'Brooding, dreamlike . . . it's in descriptions of the physical world that Donoghue's prose soars . . . Likewise, among themes that include isolation and devotion, its ecological warnings are its most resonant.'
- The Observer

'Quietly beautiful . . . And its subject, of course, is a universal one: we're all stuck on this rock, trying to keep hold of simple moral truths while quietly losing our minds. As poor young Trian puts it, in one of his darkest moments: Even this unbearable life is still sweet.'
- The Guardian

'Donoghue excels in creating not just a world but a worldview that is far removed from our own . . . this is a bold, thoughtful novel.'
- Financial Times

'A beautiful and timely novel about isolation, passion and the conflict between obedience and self-preservation. The island setting and the characters stayed with me long after I finished reading'
- Sarah Moss, author of Ghostwall and Summerwater

'Donoghue wrings unlikely psychodrama from such everyday chores of monastic life as copying a manuscript or building a drystone wall. But if that doesn't grab you, rest assured that the devastating denouement amply repays the reader's patience - and has a thing or two to say about modern-day moral panics, too'
- Daily Mail

'A powerful story, brilliantly imagined.'
- Clare Chambers, author of Small Pleasures

'Haven creates an eerie, meditative atmosphere that should resonate with anyone willing to think deeply about the blessings and costs of devoting one's life to a transcendent cause.'
- The Washington Post

'In 7th C, Ireland, three men set sail to a bird-thick island to find God. EmmaDonoghue combines pressure-cooker intensity + radical isolation, to stunning effect. What is Divine Grace? Purity of soul? Virtue? Not what they think.'
- Margaret Atwood

About the Author

Born in Dublin in 1969, and now living in Canada, Emma Donoghue writes fiction (novels and short stories, contemporary and historical), as well as drama for screen and stage. Room was a New York Times Best Book of 2010 and a finalist for the Man Booker, Commonwealth, and Orange Prizes, selling between two and three million copies in forty languages. Donoghue was nominated for an Academy Award for her 2015 adaptation starring Brie Larson. She co-wrote the screenplay for the Netflix film of her novel The Wonder, starring Florence Pugh.

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A remarkably engrossing tale * The Mail on Sunday *
This book kept me up half the night - I was unable to put it down, and read it in one spellbound gulp. It is everything a novel should be: compassionate, unpredictable, and questioning. Haven is Donoghue at her strange, unsettling best. -- Maggie O'Farrell, author of Hamnet
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A beautiful and timely novel about isolation, passion and the conflict between obedience and self-preservation. The island setting and the characters stayed with me long after I finished reading -- Sarah Moss, author of Ghostwall and Summerwater
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Sinister, heart-wrenching and beautifully written. * The Times *
A grim and grisly tale of monastic privation and isolation in seventh-century Ireland . . . [Donoghue] deftly captures the elemental nature of the relationship between her protagonists and the natural world; how it's both their benefactor and their tormentor, a source of life, but also of death. -- Lucy Scholes * The Daily Telegraph *
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Written in an admirably plain and lucid style, Haven is slow but ultimately moving in its revelation of friendhsip and human decency . . . * The Times *
A patient, thoughtful novel with much to say about spirituality, hope, and human failure, and about the miracle of mercy. -- Esi Edugyan, Booker-shortlisted author of Washington Black
Haven is a gentle book, a fascinating exploration of human nature and an immensely enjoyable read. * RTE *
Atmospheric and vividly told * Marie Claire *

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