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Synopsis
Debut novel from Rachel Trezise, winner of the Orange Futures Prize and the Dylan Thomas Prize. The story of a brutal childhood in the Welsh Valleys.
Rebecca is trying to grow up fast but the whole world s against her. She falls in love, gets drunk and takes drugs. There are things she needs to forget. But when writing and books take hold of her life she starts to come up from the bottom.
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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
The power is in what is not said... the use of language economic, inventive and highly evocative. --New Welsh Review
Part rant part confessional prose suggests Trezise is a force to be reckoned with. --Buzz
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Grit is not fashionable in adult novels nowadays. Too much deprivation, abuse and alcohol without a touch of slick, ironic violence and the narrative begins to sound like a catalogue of "issues" to be stuffed, disguised as fiction, down the throats of pre-teens. Trezise's debut, the story of Rebecca growing up in unemployment-blighted Rhondda valley, has plenty of grit, peppered by neglect, rape and drugs. What makes this winner of the Orange Futures Prize work is Rebecca's own voice. She rants, she sulks, but she remains defiant and touchingly cynical. You guess immediately that she is a survivor. The Guardian
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- PublisherParthian Books
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1905762240
- ISBN 13 9781905762248
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages172
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