Katharine Kilalea: OK MR FIELD W9 [2018] hardback ZTWRI From Head to Toe

From Head to Toe

San Diego County

Longlisted for the Not the Booker Prize 2019

the poet lived with the O'Toole family in Stillorgan for six months at a crucial point in his life

to a soft yellow duck and shimmering blue rocket

Katharine Kilalea: OK MR FIELD W9 [2018] hardback ZTWRI From Head to ToeMr Field, a concert pianist travelling back from a performance in London, fractures his left wrist in a train crash. On a whim, he uses his compensation cheque to buy a house he has seen only in a newspaper, a replica of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye built on a stretch of coast outside Cape Town. When he moves there with his wife Mim, the house which Le Corbusier designed as 'a machine for living' has a disturbing effect. Mim disappears without apology