{"product_id":"9781805302117-the-heart-in-winter","title":"The Heart in Winter","description":"\u003cp\u003eTHE 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 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 . . .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48548931043547,"sku":"9781805302117","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/1e561e7f-5e9f-4ded-9dde-238b09fdaa02.jpg?v=1775142315","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781805302117-the-heart-in-winter","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}