Fresh Apples

Rachel Trezise

• Publisher: Parthian Books
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781902638911
• eBook ISBN: 9781913640279

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• By the same author
• About Rachel Trezise
• Title Page
• Dedication
• ‘For Their Own Good’: Introduction by Emma Schofield
• Fresh Apples
• But Not Really
• Chickens
• The Joneses
• The Magician
• Coney Island
• Valley Lines
• Merry-Go-Rounds
• A Little Boy
• Jigsaws
• The Brake Fluid at Gina’s
• Acknowledgements
• About Emma Schofield
• Parthian Fiction
• Parthian Fiction: Easy Meat
• Copyright