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THE INSTANT IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER

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

What if we ride out tonight?
What if we ride out and never once look back?

October, 1891. Butte, Montana. A hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city is rich on copper mines and rampant with vice and debauchery among a hard-living crowd of immigrant Irish workers.

Here we find Tom Rourke, a young poet and balladmaker, but also a doper, a drinker and a fearsome degenerate. Just as he feels his life is heading nowhere fast, Polly Gillespie arrives in town as the new bride of the devout mine captain Long Anthony Harrington.

A thunderbolt love affair takes spark between Tom and Polly and they strike out west on a stolen

The Heart in Winter

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THE INSTANT IRISH TIMES BESTSELLERA GUARDIAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024A NEW STATESMAN FICTION HIGLIGHT OF 2024AN OBSERVER... Read more

    Publisher: Canongate Books
    Publication Date: 6/6/2024
    ISBN13: 9781805302117, 978-1805302117
    ISBN10: 1805302116

    Fiction , Historical Fiction

    Description

    THE INSTANT IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER

    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

    What if we ride out tonight?
    What if we ride out and never once look back?

    October, 1891. Butte, Montana. A hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city is rich on copper mines and rampant with vice and debauchery among a hard-living crowd of immigrant Irish workers.

    Here we find Tom Rourke, a young poet and balladmaker, but also a doper, a drinker and a fearsome degenerate. Just as he feels his life is heading nowhere fast, Polly Gillespie arrives in town as the new bride of the devout mine captain Long Anthony Harrington.

    A thunderbolt love affair takes spark between Tom and Polly and they strike out west on a stolen

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