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 ballad maker, 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 .
REVIEWS
'An absolute belter of a book' ANNE ENRIGHT
Hardback
Language: English Extent: 224 Publish Date: 6 June 2024 ISBN: 9781805302117 --- Publisher: Canongate Books Imprint: Canongate Books
