![]() ![]() ![]() To set out on pilgrimage with two companions, find this island, and found a monastic retreat” Perhaps it shouldn’t be a surprise, then, when the Lord speaks to him in a dream, ordering him to “withdraw from the world. He notes their greed, laziness, spite and lust with distaste. During his stay at Cluain Mhic Nois monastery by the River Sionan on the Isle of Hibernia, Artt, a priest, scholar and hermit whose reputation for piety and conversion precedes him, cannot help but notice how poorly many of the monks, even the Abbot, observe their vows of poverty and chastity. Haven is the twelfth novel by Irish-born Canadian author, Emma Donoghue. Land and sea like opposite pages, intricate and bejewelled with colour, in a book laid open for all to read.” The clouds shift, the light tints the Great Skellig brown, then grey, then green, as if God’s nib is inking in an illustration. “Stray beams shard through gaps in the vast sky. Donoghue's imagined establishing of Skellig Michael is brilliant. ![]()
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