The Heart in Winter

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR FROM THE ECONOMIST AND STAR TRIBUNE • Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romantic tale of young lovers on the lam in 1890s Montana. “An absolute belter of a book!” – Anne Enright

"A wedding of Cormac McCarthy with Flann O’Brien; a western but also the most Irish of novels; a tragedy written as farce . . . inspiring joy with every incident, every concept, every sentence." —The Guardian

October 1891. A hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city of Butte, Montana is rich on copper mines and rampant with vice and debauchery among… Keep Reading