The Heart in Winter

AN i-PAPER AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK TO READ THIS SUMMER A GUARDIAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024 A NEW STATESMAN FICTION HIGLIGHT OF 2024 AN OBSERVER FICTION TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024 AN IRISH TIMES FICTION TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024 '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 . . .