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 rock inhabited by tens of thousands of birds, and claim it for God. In such a place, what will survival mean?

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Published May 23, 2023

273 pages

Average rating: 7.57

7 RATINGS

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lemon ice
Jul 29, 2023
10/10 stars
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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