The Heart in Winter

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 i-PAPER AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK TO READ THIS SUMMER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE WINNER OF THE HWA GOLD CROWN '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 . . .