The Heart In Winter: A Novel by Kevin Barry early readerOctober 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 a hard living crowd of immigrant Irish workers. Here we find Tom Rourke, a young poet and ballad maker of the town, 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 extremely
a disgruntled house-elf
manipulation
All the hopes and dreams of this place now rest on the shoulders of a handful of teenage boys
Will’s own path is uncertain
swirling sea
Under that heavy burden
she's running a successful witchcraft shop
With a nod to What Maisie Knew
these two intrepid friends join the Allied soldiers streaming into France
Accusations are made and
When the ship is sent up the coast to repair a series of major underwater breaks
she flees to the last place she ever dreamed she would run: her hometown