The Heart in Winter

<p><b>THE <i>SUNDAY TIMES </i>HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEAR<br>THE INSTANT <i>IRISH TIMES </i>BESTSELLER<br>PICKED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE <i>GUARDIAN</i>, <i>NEW STATESMAN</i>, <i>OBSERVER</i>, <i>IRISH TIMES</i>, <i>INDEPENDENT</i>, <i>IRISH INDEPENDENT</i>,<i> IRISH EXAMINER</i>, <i>TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT</i>,<i> SCOTSMAN</i>, <i>THE TIMES </i>AND <i>ECONOMIST</i></b><br><b>AN <i>i-PAPER </i>AND <i>SUNDAY TIMES </i>BOOK TO READ THIS SUMMER</b><br><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE<br><br></b><b>'An absolute belter of a book' ANNE ENRIGHT<br></b><br><b>He was ready to die for love. He just needed to find the right girl. </b><br><br> 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.<br><br> 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 . . .</p>