I very much look forward to being able to discuss this moving and thought-provoking novel with many more readers as we approach publication. Haven takes the reader into the distant past and to the edges of the then known world, yet its deeply human concerns are as relevant to ours today as anything Emma has ever written. Artt, the oldest and most pious, had a dream in which he was told his duty, and he takes two others with him, the young Trian and older Cormac. Ravi Mirchandani, Editor in Chief at Picador commented: ‘My Picador colleagues and I are delighted to be publishing Emma Donoghue's new novel, a story as strikingly and excitingly different from The Pull of the Stars, as that novel was from its predecessors. IN SEVENTH century Ireland three monks set off from the mainland in a small boat to find an island on which to set up a monastery. Emma Donoghue’s deeply-researched novel has her trademark psychological intensity, but this story is like nothing she has ever written before. What they find is the extraordinary island now known as Skellig Michael. They set sail in a small boat, in search of a lonely rock in the ocean. In a time of plague and terror, three men vow to leave the world behind them. 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. Picador will publish Haven in August 2022, simultaneously with Little, Brown in the US and HarperCollins in Canada. The deal was struck for UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) with Caroline Davidson at Caroline Davidson Literary Agency.
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