might have been a moving story instead of a lesson in self-indulgence." Akin Akin (2019) is a contemporary novel, though with much discussion of events during the Second World War in France. Alex Preston in The Guardian called it "dispiriting". The Pull of the Stars Donoghue's novel The Pull of the Stars (2020), written in 2018-2019, was published earlier than originally planned because it was set in the 1918 influenza pandemic in Dublin, Ireland. All the characters were fictional except Dr Kathleen Lynn. The novel received strongly positive reviews from critics and was longlisted for the Giller Prize in 2020. Haven This novel, published in 2022, is set among monks in the seventh century on Skellig Michael. Hephzibah Anderson, in The Guardian, wrote that "While Haven certainly isn’t her most accessible novel, a flinty kind of hope brightens its satisfying ending. What the reader is likely to take away, however, is the image of a bleak place made still bleaker by human intervention". Bibliography Novels Stir Fry (1994) Hood (1995) Slammerkin (2000) Life Mask (2004) Landing (2007) The Sealed Letter (2008) Room (2010) Frog Music (2014) The Wonder (2016) The Lotterys series: The Lotterys Plus One (2017) The Lotterys More or Less (2018) Akin (2019) The Pull of the Stars (2020) Haven (2022) Short stories Collections: Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins, AKA Kissing the Witch (1997), collection of 13 short stories: "The Tale of the Shoe", "The Tale of the Bird", "The Tale of the Rose", "The Tale of the Apple", "The Tale of the Handkerchief", "The Tale of the Hair", "The Tale of the Brother", "The Tale of the Spinster", "The Tale of the Cottage", "The Tale of the Skin", "The Tale of the Needle", "The Tale of the Voice", "The Tale of the Kiss" The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits (2002), collection of 17 short stories: "Acts of Union", "Account", "Ballad", "Come, Gentle Night", "Cured", "Dido", "The Last Rabbit", "The Necessity of Burning", "Revelations", "Salvage", "Night Vision", "Figures of Speech", "A Short Story", "The Fox on the Line", "How a Lady Dies", "Looking for Petronilla", "Words for Things" Touchy Subjects (2006), collection of 19 short stories: "The Dormition of the Virgin", "Baggage", "WritOr", "Lavender's Blue", "Through the Night", "The Man Who Wrote on Beaches", "Do They Know It's Christmas", "Good Deed", "The Sanctuary of Hands", "Necessary Noise", "Pluck", "Team Men", "Enchantment", "The Welcome", "Oops",