Kevin Barry – The Heart in Winter
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A savagely funny, achingly beautiful tale set in the Wild West.
October, 1891. Tom Rourke is a poet struggling to make a life amongst the Irish migrant workers in Butte, Montana. Then 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...
Picked as Sunday Times historical novel of the year, from the Booker-longlisted author of Night Boat to Tangier.
In conversation with Rebecca Wilkie
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