Library of Wales: in and Out of the Goldfish Bowl

Début novel from Rachel Trezise, winner of the Orange Futures Prize and the Dylan Thomas Prize. After a brutal childhood in the underprivileged Welsh valleys, Rebecca is growing 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.