A bitter January day on the outskirts of a small Irish university town, and Fox, a reclusive researcher, has just received a phone call. His former girlfriend Clara has brought word that his mentor and love rival Stoyte is gravely ill and, what's more, the dying man has some final things he needs to say. Now Fox must set out through the snow and ice to reckon with the ghosts of the past. Poignant, haunting, and absurdly comic, A Mind of Winter is a tale of lost lives, guilt, punishment, and the cruelties we inflict upon ourselves and others. AUTHOR: Eoghan Smith is an Irish writer, critic and academic. He is the author of three novels The Failing Heart (Dedalus, 2018) A Provincial Death (Dedalus, 2022) and A Mind of Winter(Dedalus, 2023). He has also written a monograph on John Banville and was co-editor of a collection of essays on Irish suburban literary and visual cultures. He has contributed numerous essays, articles and reviews on literature and visual culture to a variety of academic and literary publications, including The Irish Times, Books Ireland, Dublin Review of Books, Irish University Review and the Irish Studies Review. He has taught English literature at universities and colleges in Dublin, Maynooth and Carlow since the mid-2000s.