Emma Donoghue is a favorite of mine (Room, Frog Music, The Paris Express, The Pull of the Stars, Akin) and I was lucky enough to find a copy of Haven in a Little Free Library around the corner from ours (and it’s now in ours – love the way they work!). “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?” This was a good survival story, though short, and a decent read. Not a favorite of hers, for me, though.