Oh, Kevin Barry's writing! Every sentence is a gem, every one I could have underlined except that I listened to the audio book (read exceptionally well by the author). It's winter in 1890s Montana. Tom is an Irish wastrel, drinking his way through the cowboy saloons, earning a bit of money writing letters for men to get mail-order brides from back East, and working in a photographer's studio part time. There he meets Polly, a mail-order bride having her photograph taken with her new husband. Tom and Polly fall in love, burn down a house, steal some money and a horse and ride out with a posse on their tail. It's very wild west and great fun, and as I said, brilliantly written. It's a contender for my books of the year, the only things that could have worked better was that the two high points of the novel were not on the page, but told as reported stories, which was a shame - I would have felt more to live through them with the characters. I wonder if Barry did that for a reason. Highly recommended.