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Heart in Winter PBK, The / Kevin Barry

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THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEAR

THE INSTANT IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER

PICKED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN, OBSERVER, IRISH TIMES, INDEPENDENT, IRISH INDEPENDENT, IRISH EXAMINER, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, SCOTSMAN, THE TIMES AND ECONOMIST

'An absolute belter of a book' ANNE ENRIGHT

He was ready to die for love.

He just needed to find the right girl.

October, 1891.

Tom Rourke is a poet struggling to make a life amongst the Irish migrant workers in Butte, Montana.

He is a doper and a drinker and a fearsome degenerate.

His life is heading nowhere fast.

That is until he meets Polly Gillespie, the new bride of a devout mine captain, and a thunderbolt love affair takes spark.

Tom and Polly strike out west on a stolen horse.

But a posse of deranged Cornish gunsmen are in hot pursuit of the lovers, and closing in fast .