In and Out of the Goldfish Bowl

Winner of the Orange Futures Award. A harsh contemporary novel set in an underprivileged area in south Wales, dealing with child abuse and the despair of the young generation who sink deeper into the maelstrom of sex and drugs, a first 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's semi-autobiographical novel In and Out of the Goldfish Bowl was published in 2000, to critical acclaim and a place on the Orange Futures List, is studied in Welsh Universities and at the University of Montreal. Her short story collection Fresh Apples, won the inaugural Dylan Thomas Prize in 2006. Trezise was writer in residence at the University of Texas in spring 2007. Dial M for Merthyr won the inaugural Max Boyce Prize in 2010. Her radio play Lemon Meringue Pie was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2008. Sixteen Shades of Crazy was published by Blue Door in 2010. Her work has been translated into several languages and published all over the world.