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Dear Sukhi There is a fairly generous repository of information on Trezza available on the internet to start you off, from critical perspectives to broadsheet reviews and analysis to one or two interviews with the author herself – in the latter, especially, you'll find particularly useful information on Trezza's self-identification as a writer (she doesn't, for example, consider herself to be a writer of 'Welsh' fiction and prefers the 'Welsh' to be omitted before 'writer'). You'll probably find her entry on the contemporarywriters website an excellent springboard, particularly as this teases out the themes of The Hiding Place, her first book and a simply outstanding debut. If you go to the Hay Festival archive, you can also (for a modest amount) pay to listen again to an interview I did with her at the Hay Festival earlier this year, where she discusses the major preoccupations of her body of work to date (identity, memory, loss and recovery). I am not sure that Trezza could be classified as 'obscure'. She's published by one of the most well regarded major commercial publishers for literary fiction (Picador), enjoys healthy sales, is widely reviewed in the arts broadsheets and has been nominated for major awards, most notably the Booker. Good luck with your research and studies! Warm wishes, Kathryn Kathryn Gray Editor New Welsh Review [log in to unmask]