Description
In the early seventh century, three Irish monks set out across the Atlantic to establish a monastery on an island glimpsed by their leader in a dream. When they reach the stark, bird-inhabited rock now known as Skellig Michael, faith, ambition, and the brutal demands of survival begin to pull them in different directions. Against a vivid backdrop of treacherous seas and unforgiving wilderness, the novel explores devotion, power, human frailty, and the uneasy divide between spiritual ideals and the natural world. With meditative prose, immersive historical detail, and psychological intensity, it transforms a remote sanctuary into a searching portrait of belief under pressure.
Available Editions
paperback
Pan Macmillan
Published Jan 1, 2022
ISBN: 9781529091113
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Details
First Published
2022
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Haven by Emma Donoghue.