THE HEART IN WINTER

Butte, Montana, October 1891, and 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 of the town, 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 extremely devout mine captain Long Anthony Harrington. A thunderbolt love affair takes spark between Tom and Polly and they strike out west on a stolen horse, moving through the bad-lands of Montana and Idaho, and briefly an idyll of wild romance perfects itself.

But a posse of deranged Cornish gunsmen are soon in hot pursuit of the lovers, and closing in fast...

ISBN: 9781837262380
Imprint: A&U Canongate
Publication Date: 4 June 2024
Dimensions: 137mm x 214mm
Weight: 240g 
No. Of Pages: 224