What is Divine Grace? Purity of soul? Virtue? Not what they think.' - (via Twitter) #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. 'This is 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 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. ‘Beautiful and timely’ - Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater From the bestselling author of The Pull of the Stars and Room
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