{"product_id":"9781529091168-haven","title":"Haven","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHaunting, moving and vividly told, \u003ci\u003eHaven\u003c\/i\u003e displays Emma Donoghue’s trademark world-building and psychological intensity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA story of survival set in 600 AD Ireland; a parable of patriarchy, destruction and religion at sea, by Emma Donoghue, the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eRoom\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Everything a novel should be: compassionate, unpredictable, and questioning. \u003ci\u003eHaven \u003c\/i\u003eis Donoghue at her strange, unsettling best.' - Maggie O'Farrell, author of \u003ci\u003eHamnet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn seventh-century Ireland, a priest has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks with him, he travels down the Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a new place of worship. 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. But in such a place, far from all other humanity, what will survival mean?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eHaven\u003c\/i\u003e is a beautiful, bold blaze of a book’ – Rachel Joyce, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Beautiful and timely’ - Sarah Moss, author of \u003ci\u003eSummerwater\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Sinister, heart-wrenching and beautifully written’ – \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Combines pressure-cooker intensity and radical isolation, to stunning effect’ – Margaret Atwood via Twitter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘\u003cb\u003eBook of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e’\u003cb\u003e pick in \u003ci\u003eThe Irish Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Irish Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRTÉ\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40808192475233,"sku":"9781529091168","price":8.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27177446.jpg?v=1721549839","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781529091168-haven","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}