Hay Festival March Book Club – Fresh Apples by Rachel Trezise
– Free Online
In her award-winning 2006 short story collection Fresh Apples novelist and playwright Rachel Trezise effortlessly depicts the daily lives of communities in South Wales, offering a commentary on modern inequality and a bold challenge to our political systems. Join the writer in conversation with journalist Megan Davies as she explores the power of words to bridge divides.
Further reading
For their own good, Wales Arts Review
About the author
Rachel Trezise is a novelist and playwright from the Rhondda Valley, south Wales. Her writing includes the debut novel In and Out of the Goldfish Bowl; short fiction collections Fresh Apples and Cosmic Latte; plays Tonypandemonium, We’re Still Here, and Cotton Fingers. She was won multiple awards including the Orange Futures Award, Dylan Thomas Prize and Summerhall Lustrum Award at the Edinburgh Fringe.
About Hay Festival Book Club
Timeless titles to offer you a break from the day to day. Can't decide what to read next? Follow your curiosity and join Hay Festival on a journey to imagine the world anew through great literature. Unconstrained by genre or form these are our monthly picks of great books worth reading (or re-reading) right now.
Throughout the month, we'll share interesting links and articles relating to our selection on social media using #HFBookClub and invite you all to get involved with your questions and comments. Each selection will also be marked with a free online event.
If you'd like to recommend a book for consideration, get in touch via bookclub@hayfestival.org.
Happy reading!
Supported by Unwin Charitable Trust
Compre el libro para esta actividad
Fresh Apples
Sarah's not abnormal or ugly, just a little bit fat, and she's got cerebral palsy. "No way was it rape or even molestation... she's fourteen, not a child. I'm not a paedophile." Gemma's mother had shagged Tom Jones. Nobody knew who her father was, least of all her mother. Spiderman doesn't want to inflict his petty-thief persona on self contained Caitlin, but he finds himself getting off at her stop. When chickens that belong to 'Chelle's grand-dad start to peck each other, sounding like death warming up, she wrings one of their necks and ends up doing worse. Johnny Mental was sitting on his porch wearing sunglasses, drinking lager, his teeth orange and ugly. Someone was painting their front door a few yards away, with a portable radio playing soul music; Diana Ross or some shit. A big burgundy Vauxhall Cavalier came around the corner, real slow like an old man on a hill. Eleven wry and defiant stories on the power and beautiful transience of youth.
