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Freda and Brenda divide the bed they share with a barricade of books, then spend their days working side by side in a wine-bottling factory. A picnic out at Windsor Park for the two women and their colleagues offers promise for Freda and terror for Brenda....
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Shortlisted for the 1974 Booker Prize, a razor-sharp and mercilessly funny novel of friendship, class and desire, now with a new introduction by A. K. Blakemore.
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Freda and Brenda divide the bed they share with a barricade of books, then spend their days working side by side in a wine-bottling factory. A picnic out at Windsor Park for the two women and their colleagues offers promise for Freda and terror for Brenda. Passions run high before coming to a brutal and startling end.
With an unforgettably dark heart, The Bottle Factory Outing is laugh-out-loud funny, grubbily evocative and slyly weird, and is for fans of Muriel Spark, Anita Brookner and early Ian McEwan.
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ISBN: 9781917092371
Publisher: Daunt Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 12 March 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Daunt Books
Contributors:
- Introduction by A. K. Blakemore
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 304
About the Author
Beryl Bainbridge was the author of seventeen novels, two travel books and five plays for stage and television. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, and among other awards, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread Novel of the Year and the Guardian Fiction Prize. She died in 2010.
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