Rachel Trezise started writing 'In and Out of the Goldfish Bowl' when she was seventeen. It was published in 2000 when she was twenty.
She calls it the book that 'she had to write,' 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. Orange Futures Winner.
"The power is in what is not said... the use of language economic, inventive and highly evocative."
The New Welsh Review
"Part rant part confessional prose... suggests Trezise is a force to be reckoned with."
Buzz
"Trezise's debut has plenty of grit... she rants, she sulks, but she remains defiant. You guess immediately that she is a survivor."
The Guardian
In And Out Of The Goldfish Bowl