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In and Out of the Goldfish Bowl

by Rachel Trezise

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Book Details

  • Paperback
  • 150 pages
  • ISBN 978-1-905762-24-8
  • Publisher Parthian

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Winner of the Orange Futures Award

‘My mother only went to the Parents’ Evening at Cwmparc Primary once. She was drunk and stole a cheese plant from the corridor.’

In and Out of the Goldfish Bowl is a novel from Rachel Trezise, a young Rhondda writer depicting the hard brutal edges of childhood.

The grown-ups fight, steal, get drunk, get arrested, and then give you a hard time for taking drugs

Once you pick up this book you will not be able to put it down again - Heidi Cook, Gair Rhydd

From the same creative wave that’s produced the current Welsh rock bands .....it positively sings - Leonora Brito

A child’s Christmas in Wales where the only present you can hope for is that your mam really does kill your dad with the bread knife this time - The Western Mail

Trainspotting for Treorchy - The Big Issue

Part rant part confessional prose... suggests Trezise might be a force to be reckoned with - Buzz

The power is in what is not said...the use of language economic, inventive and highly evocative - The New Welsh Review

Here is a novel that scatters its soul, burns with honesty and vitality and speaks a language we need to hear - Patrick Jones

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