The Heart in Winter

Beschreibung

THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEAR<BR>THE INSTANT IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER<BR>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<BR>AN i-PAPER AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK TO READ THIS SUMMER<BR>SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE<BR>WINNER OF THE HWA GOLD CROWN<BR><BR>'An absolute belter of a book' ANNE ENRIGHT<BR><BR>He was ready to die for love.

He just needed to find the right girl. <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 . . .

Angaben vom Händler.