Multi award-winning author Kevin Barry is back with a new story and a new genre. He tells Aine Toner about his inspiration for ‘a Western with Cork accents’ Kevin Barry Think star-crossed lovers at the end of the nineteenth century in the Wild West and you have the protagonists within Kevin Barry’s latest novel. The Heart in Winter is an often romantic account of the relationship between poet and ballad maker Tom Rourke, originally from Ireland, living in Butte, Montana, in 1891.
Sex and drugs are his vices of choice and while life has a pattern, everything changes when Polly Gillespie — a mail-order bride for a religious inhabitant — strides into his life..
