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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. Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified. Pre-order Learned by Heart, the dazzling new love story from Emma Donoghue. Little, Brown, 2022 - Fiction - 272 pages. The Irish Times 'Books to Look Out For in 2022'. One of Easons 'Favourite Book of the Year 2022'. Haunting, moving and vividly told, Haven displays Emma Donoghue’s trademark world-building and psychological intensity – but this tale is like nothing she has ever written before. But in such a place, far from all other humanity, what will survival mean? Their extraordinary landing spot is now known as Skellig Michael. 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 travels 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. 'Combines pressure-cooker intensity and radical isolation, to stunning effect.' – Margaret Atwood via Twitter 'This is Donoghue at her strange, unsettling best.' - Maggie O'Farrell, author of Hamnet Garrett Emma Donoghue Haven: A Novel (Little, Brown and Company, August 2022) Emma Donoghue’s new novel explores themes of faith, obedience, isolation, and survival in a harrowing story that is ancient and alien but also holds truths for our own time. The highly anticipated novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Pull of the Stars and Room Emma Donoghue’s Haven: A Novel By Yvonne C.