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The Heart in Winter

The Heart in Winter

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"The Nightingale" is a historical fiction novel set in 1891 Montana, following the story of Tom Rourke and Polly Gillespie, who fall in love and face danger from a posse of Cornish gunsmen. The novel is a Guardian Book to Look Out For in 2024, a New Statesman Fiction Highlight of 2024, an Observer Fiction to Look Out For in 2024, and an Irish Times Fiction to Look Out For in 2024.

Format: Hardback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 06 June 2024
Publisher: Canongate Books



The Instant Irish Times Bestseller!
A Guardian Book to Look Out For in 2024!
A New Statesman Fiction Highlight 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 horse, moving through the badlands of Montana and Idaho. 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. . . .

Weight: 332g
Dimension: 143 x 222 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781805302117
Edition number: Main

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