The Bottle Factory Outing

Beryl Bainbridge · 1974 CE · Novel · English · Contemporary

Freda and Brenda share a bed-sit in London and a job labelling bottles at an Italian-run wine factory, one of them scheming and the other flinching. Freda organizes a works outing to a stately home, chiefly to advance her designs on the manager's nephew, and the day goes wrong from the transport onward. Loneliness under the farce.

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