The Bottle Factory Outing

Name: The Bottle Factory Outing
Brand: Allen & Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781917092371
Price: 27.99 NZD
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By Beryl Bainbridge

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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.... Read More

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Description

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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INFORMATION

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

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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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