Beryl Bainbridge

Broschiertes Buch

The Bottle Factory Outing

Beschreibung

Freda and Brenda divide the bed they share with a barricade of books, then spend their days working side by side in an Italian-run 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, brutally, to a 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.

Autor

Beryl Bainbridge is the author of seventeen novels, two travel books and five plays for stage and television. The Dressmaker, The Bottle Factory Outing, An Awfully Big Adventure, Every Man for Himself and Master Georgie (which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize) were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Every Man for Himself was awarded the Whitbread Novel of the Year Prize. She won the Guardian Fiction Prize with The Dressmaker and the Whitbread Prize with Injury Time. The Bottle Factory Outing, Sweet William and The Dressmaker have all been adapted for film, as was An Awfully Big Adventure, which starred Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman. Beryl Bainbridge died in July 2010.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Daunt Books Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781917092371
• ISBN-10: 1917092377
• Artikelnr.: 75296366

Rezensionen

This is a superb novel. It is taut in construction, expansive in characterization, vibrant in atmosphere and profoundly comic The Times