The Heart in Winter

Kevin Barry

214 pages

Hardback

Canongate Books Ltd

2024

£16.99

ISBN: 9781805302117

Review

‘They rode on. They rode double. The day was sharp and bright. They were mellow of mood if not entirely at a distance to the sadnesses natural to both of them, and these they knew were sadnesses unanswerable.’

‘The Heart in Winter’ by Kevin Barry feels like an oft-told tale. A western in which two young lovers elope and are chased by low-down, no good varmints – haven’t we heard this story before? If this novel risks covering old ground (or being as worn as a pair of old leather chaps?) it is brought to life by the fact that it is not a western, or at least not primarily a western.

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