Haven
In this beautiful story of adventure and survival from the New York Times bestselling author of Room, three men vow to leave the world behind them as they set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them.
In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks--young Trian and old Cormac--he rows down the river Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a monastery. 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. In such a place, what will survival mean?BUY THE BOOK
Community Reviews
How can two people read the same book & feel so differently about it? My husband dissed the plot & characters, but finished it anyway... I picked it up & was spellbound from the start; putting it down frequently to savor the ever-growing tension among the three characters & to try to guess where the author was going with the plot. Surprisingly, I was correct on several accounts, but held on to a feeling of dread until the last page, still not truly convinced I was inside the character's heads well enough to make predictions about the ending.
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