‘A beautiful and timely novel about isolation, passion and the conflict between obedience and self-preservation.
Lyrical and then visceral, appearing at one moment tranquil and another so intense it’s like being bitten and clawed.' - Rachel Joyce "What a beautiful, intense, blazing, richly-woven yet spartan and unsparing book this is. Haven is Donoghue at her strange, unsettling best.' - Maggie O'Farrell It is everything a novel should be: compassionate, unpredictable, and questioning. This book kept me up half the night - I was unable to put it down, and read it in one spellbound gulp. ' Combines pressure-cooker intensity and radical isolation, to stunning effect.’ - Margaret Atwood Margaret Skea, Interview/Feature, 'A Deceptively Simple Story: Confinement, Family and the Environment in Emma Donoghue’s Haven,' Kim Honey, 'How a 21st-century Feminist Inhabits the Minds and Lives of Sixth-Century Monks in Haven,' Interview by Ari Shapiro on NPR's All Things Considered, Wherever you live, PLEASE support your local indie bookstore by buying from them either directly or through an indie-friendly hub such as or .uk.
My plans to return and land on Skellig Michael in 2020 were derailed by what the monks would no doubt have taken in their stride as the latest pestilence to plague humankind, so I’ve never been there, except in spirit and imagination - the one form of travel that can’t be forbidden. Haven is Donoghue’s fourteenth novel (and eighteenth book of fiction) and was a bestseller in Canada and Ireland on publication.Ī personal note: This novel was inspired by a boat trip around the Skelligs in 2016. In such a place, what will survival mean?
Drifting out into the Atlantic, they find an impossibly steep, bare rock inhabited by tens of thousands of birds, and claim it for God. In this adventure story set around the year 600, three Irishmen vow to leave the world behind and set out in a small boat to found a monastery on an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them. Haven (New York: Little Brown Toronto: HarperCollins Canada London: Picador, 2022).
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