Field Ramble with Kevin Barry & Elizabeth O'Connor

Send us Fan MailTwo wonderful books on this episode. First up we hear from Elizabeth O' Connor about her incredible debut novel Whalefall. Set on a remote island off the coast of Wales in the run up to World War Two it is a story that maps the tension between home and the hope that exists in a young heart for a life of their own. We loved this book, the island is as wild & windswept as you'd want and the themes of imposition and the violence of 'progress' felt so timely. Do look it out, it's brilliant.Kevin Barry needs little introduction. Booker long-listed author of Irish number 1 best seller Night Boat to Tangiers, The Heart in Winter is his fourth novel and is as much fun as you'd expect. Set in 1891, Butte Montana it follows the thunderbolt love affair of Tom Rourke and Polly Gillespie. If stolen horses, psychedelics, badlands, and a posse of deranged Cornish gunmen are your thing (and they are ours) then you're going to love this.Whalefall is published by Picador and is available nowThe Heart in Winter is published by Canongate on June 6thHuge thanks to Huw Marc Bennett, Ian Hawgood & Nathan Salzburg for their use of their incredible music. Why not subscribe to and support  Field -  @ www.patreon.com/fieldzine@fieldzine www.fieldzine.comwww.patreon.com/fieldzine