Haven: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Room

Haven is a story of survival set in 600 AD Ireland, a parable of patriarchy, destruction, and religion at sea by Emma Donoghue, the bestselling author of Room. It is shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and has been praised for its compassion, unpredictability, and questioning. It is a beautiful, bold blaze of a book that combines pressure-cooker intensity and radical isolation to stunning effect.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 04 May 2023
Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Haven is a novel by Emma Donoghue, the bestselling author of Room. It is set in seventh-century Ireland and tells the story of a priest who has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. He travels down the Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a new place of worship and finds an impossibly steep, bare island inhabited by tens of thousands of birds. The three men claim the island for God, but in such a place, far from all other humanity, what will survival mean? Haven is a beautiful, bold blaze of a book that combines pressure-cooker intensity and radical isolation to stunning effect. It has been shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and has been praised by authors such as Maggie O'Farrell, Rachel Joyce, Sarah Moss, and Margaret Atwood. The Times has called it "Book of the Year" pick in The Irish Times, The Guardian, The Irish Post, RTÉ, and The Times.

Weight: 196g
Dimension: 129 x 198 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529091168