Her writing flows smoothly, her plots are uncomplicated and she keeps her character count to a minimum, which makes it easy for me to pick up and put down as we go about the various things we do when we’re on holiday.Īs it turned out, I devoured the book in just two days. In the past I have enjoyed Donoghue’s stories whilst on holidays (in particular I read The Pull of the Stars during a week at the beach in 2020). I couldn’t think of another tree story that I wanted to read during this visit, however a story about the environment and conservation and self-sufficiency would surely do the trick. The last time Mr Books and I went to Far North Queensland (FNQ) was in 2019, and I took Richard Powers book, The Overstory. You got a sense of looking down a lens through history and seeing it all from the beginning, where we went wrong and why we are where we are today with so many lost species and a dying planet.Īt this point, I realised I had stumbled across the book I was going to read on my holiday in the Port Douglas Daintree region. But then I read Theresa’s review Smith Writes. The religious life holds very little interest for me, so I was happy to leave well enough alone. Even though it was historical fiction, it was three monks alone on an island in Ireland. When I first heard about Emma Donoghue’s book, Haven, I thought it would not be for me. He’s not twenty yet, still growing, and always hungry.
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