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‘Holy damn, it's good’
DAVID MITCHELL        

‘Kevin Barry lights out for the territory and once again comes back with a shining nugget of gold. The Heart in Winter is a glorious and haunted yarn, with all the elements – the doomed lovers, the bounty hunters, the knife-fights and whisky-soaked songs – brought to mysterious life by the heft and polish of the Barry sentence. Marvellous’
JON McGREGOR        

‘A great big rollicking ballad of a novel. A love story, and a slice of history, in a language as close to song as literature will ever get’
COLUM McCANN        

‘A haunting, hypnotic love story of two damaged souls. Barry's talent is breath-taking — he is a true original and, once again, words obey his call. This is a propulsive read from a writer at the height of his powers’
MARY COSTELLO        

‘[The Heart in Winter is] an Irish western, by turns funny and tragic, full of typically outrageous figures and sublime writing’
ALEX PRESTON, Observer

‘Such a great read, so warm and so completely engaging of the reader's feelings’
MIKE McCORMACK