Orange Futures Winner

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

‘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

In and Out of the Goldfish Bowl is a novel from 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.

Rachel Trezise was born in the Rhondda Valley in 1978. She has studied at Glamorgan and Limerick Universities and hopes one day to make a living. She is currently editing a new writing magazine for the valleys and once drank champagne.