9 Best ireland books like Haven by Emma Donoghue

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Similar categories in Claire Keegan's Foster book and Emma Donoghue's Haven

Similar categories in Paul Lynch's Prophet Song book and Emma Donoghue's Haven

• literary fiction
• fiction
• ireland
• irish literature
• audiobook

"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

Similar categories in Sebastian Barry's Old God's Time book and Emma Donoghue's Haven

• literary fiction
• fiction
• ireland
• irish literature
• audiobook

"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

Similar categories in Anne Enright's The Wren, the Wren book and Emma Donoghue's Haven

• literary fiction
• fiction
• ireland
• irish literature
• audiobook

"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

Similar categories in Elizabeth Strout's Lucy by the Sea book and Emma Donoghue's Haven

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Paul Harding's This Other Eden book and Emma Donoghue's Haven

• literary fiction
• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Emma Donoghue's Haven book and Emma Donoghue's Haven

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• canada
• historical
• religion
• fiction
• historical fiction
• ireland
• irish literature
• audiobook

"Fog makes an island of every man."

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

"To travel is to turn the pages of the great book of life."

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

"Cormac’s distracted by a slopping sound under the slats. He keeps talking to soothe his nerves. ‘Here’s a saying I’ve heard but don’t understand: Never turn your back on the ocean.’ ‘Even on a calm d…"

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

Similar categories in Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood book and Emma Donoghue's Haven

• literary fiction
• fiction
• audiobook

"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

Similar categories in Colm Tóibín's Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2) book and Emma Donoghue's Haven

• literary fiction
• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• ireland
• irish literature
• audiobook

Similar categories in Paul Murray's The Bee Sting book and Emma Donoghue's Haven

• literary fiction
• fiction
• ireland
• irish literature
• audiobook

"It is for love. You are doing this for love."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

Similar categories in Maggie O'Farrell's The Marriage Portrait book and Emma Donoghue's Haven

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• audiobook

"May I keep this?"

-Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait

"Was there no hope? the tigress seemed to be asking her. Will I always remain here? Will I never return home?"

-Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait

"The animal was orange, burnished gold, fire made flesh; she was power and anger, she was vicious and exquisite;"

-Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait

"Is it possible for a woman to be so unsettled in spirit that a child will have no hope of taking root within her?"

-Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait

Similar categories in Kate Atkinson's Shrines of Gaiety book and Emma Donoghue's Haven

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• audiobook

"The library had not been a career choice. After all, who would choose to be a librarian?"

-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety

"His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about. As if there weren't enough novels in the world already."

-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety

Similar categories in Elaine Feeney's How to Build a Boat book and Emma Donoghue's Haven

• literary fiction
• fiction
• ireland
• irish literature
• audiobook

"To some, the world is filled with threats. To others, opportunities."

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"That's dedication and if life's taught me anything, we go to what we love, eventually - we mightn't find it straight away, but we get there."

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"...[W]hile language came readily to Tess when dealing with herself alone, having one-way conversations over all of her choices on her long walks in the woods, or on her way to school, now she no long…"

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"How can I miss someone I have never met? Jamie said. Grief was profoundly different for both humans. One felt an intense anger he had never recovered from, the other knew something was missing, a vac…"

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

Similar categories in Donal Ryan's The Queen of Dirt Island book and Emma Donoghue's Haven

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• ireland
• irish literature
• audiobook

"Time will wind its own sweet way. We have no choice but to keep up."

-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

"Happiness was a strange notion, something that was wrapped neatly, and packed into the closing scenes of television shows and daytime films, sharply relieved on the screen, but blurry in real life, a…"

-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

"her mother and grandmother and great-grandmother had walked her to the classroom door and Mammy had cried a bit and Granny had told her to cop on and Nana then had told Granny to cop on herself and t…"

-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

"She felt sad in that moment for anyone in the world who didn’t have a mother like hers. A mother who was standing now above her quarry like a prizefighter in a swell of victory, looking slowly left a…"

-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

Similar categories in Joseph O'Connor's My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1) book and Emma Donoghue's Haven

• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• ireland
• audiobook

"Life schools you the way no catechism will."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"There are times when we must permit one another to lie."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"I was singing in Belfast the night the Luftwaffe firebombed the theatre. That's what you call a mixed review."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"A religiously minded kid will often be good at lying awake all night because you need an imagination if you're going to believe."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

Similar categories in Jess Kidd's The Night Ship book and Emma Donoghue's Haven

• audiobook
• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction

Similar categories in Lauren Groff's The Vaster Wilds book and Emma Donoghue's Haven

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• audiobook

"For what is a girl but a vessel made to hold the desires of men."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"O put the memory away, girl, she told herself sternly. For the sorrow could eat you entire."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"And humans were not made to be always alone; humans survive only in the company of other humans."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"Against the resistance of other minds, one's thoughts are pulled out of their comfortable shapes, and true thinking begins."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

Similar categories in Carys Davies's Clear book and Emma Donoghue's Haven

• literary fiction
• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fayne: A Novel book and Emma Donoghue's Haven

• literary fiction
• canada
• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• audiobook

"Byrn speaks and I understand him without effort, his words as clear as spring water. / Ask a favour of the plover, he says. Borrow her eyes. / Then I am flying through the air, and the flying is his …"

-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fayne: A Novel

Similar categories in Sarah Perry's Enlightenment book and Emma Donoghue's Haven

• literary fiction
• historical
• religion
• fiction
• historical fiction
• audiobook

"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

Similar categories in Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter book and Emma Donoghue's Haven

• literary fiction
• canada
• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• audiobook

"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."

-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter