So I imagined three men - young, middle and old. And I thought, how many of them would there be? Well, I thought I need there to be three of them because of the trinity, because the men who settled on this island were absolutely fixed on their goal of getting away from the world and founding an absolutely pure monastic retreat. You know, I was seized by the question of how they survived. It's a real island that Donoghue actually boated past several years ago.ĮMMA DONOGHUE: Well, by the end of that boat ride, I had the whole thing in my head because I was struck immediately by logistical questions. They land on a place called the Great Skellig. In her new novel, "Haven," three Irish monks in the Middle Ages choose to live a life of isolation on a rocky island.
Her bestselling novel "Room" centered on a mother and her son in a forced imprisonment. Emma Donoghue tends to write about people in a tough spot.
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