Their foolish destruction of the island’s resources will resonate with contemporary readers, but she refuses to reduce these characters to symbols of modern exigencies…The effect is transporting, sometimes unsettling and eventually shocking.” - Ron Charles, The Washington Post What is Divine Grace? Purity of soul? Virtue? Not what they think.” - creates an eerie, meditative atmosphere that should resonate with anyone willing to think deeply about the blessings and costs of devoting one’s life to a transcendent cause…Donoghue works subtly in the margins, letting these three men evolve into their distinct roles. #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. Haven is Donoghue at her strange, unsettling best."- Maggie O’Farrell, author of Hamnet It is everything a novel should be: compassionate, unpredictable, and questioning. "This book kept me up half the night-I was unable to put it down, and read it in one spellbound gulp.
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