Andrew Davis o Rachel Trezise: Pewność, dystans i dojrzałość narracji w „Fresh Apples” są wyjątkowe. Porównać je można tylko do Jamesa Joyce’a.
Rachel Trezise, born in the Rhondda Valley in 1978, is called „the voice of contemporary literary Cymru”. Her debut novel “In and Out of the Goldfish Bowl”, an autobiographical account of a young girl growing up in the south Wales valleys, was published in 2000. In 2001, the book was included on the Orange Futures list, an initiative set up by The Orange Prize for Fiction to identify and promote the exciting writing of twenty one new young women authors. Rachel studied Journalism and English at Glamorgan University. Her degree included a six month Erasmus exchange programme which she spent at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick. There she studied Irish history and geography. She was voted by fashion magazine “Harpers & Queen” as the new face of literature in 2003. Rachel’s short story collection Fresh Apples was published in 2005 and it won her The EDS Dylan Thomas Prize Award in 2006. She also wrote short stories for Welsh anthologies: “Wales, Half Welsh” (Bloomsbury, 2004) and “Urban Welsh” (Parthian, 2005). Her “Dial M for Merthyr: On Tour with Midasuno” – the document of the band’s time on the road – was published in 2007. In 2010 Rachel published „Loose Connections” (Accent Press Ltd, UK) and „Sixteen Shades of Crazy” (Blue Door, UK). She was a guest of the 2007 edition of the festival.
The confidence, coolness and maturity of tone in Fresh Apples is exceptional. Can easily be compared to James Joyce. Andrew Davies on „Fresh Apples”.