Book Review
Jan. 22nd, 2008 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariThe Bottle Factory Outing
by Beryl Bainbridge
Bainbridge's novels are like a really tart alcoholic drink. Makes your mouth pucker and gives you some inappropriate giggles. Not the most likable thing but it has a worthwhile effect. The Bottle Factory Outing is a very dark comedy about Freda and Brenda, two women who work at a small Italian-run wine bottling plant in London. Their relationship with each other and the rest of the factory workers are a bit complex and slightly absurd in a rather banal way. Freda organizes an outing to the countryside for herself, Brenda, and their co-workers, but everything goes both humorously and tragically wrong.
by Beryl Bainbridge
Bainbridge's novels are like a really tart alcoholic drink. Makes your mouth pucker and gives you some inappropriate giggles. Not the most likable thing but it has a worthwhile effect. The Bottle Factory Outing is a very dark comedy about Freda and Brenda, two women who work at a small Italian-run wine bottling plant in London. Their relationship with each other and the rest of the factory workers are a bit complex and slightly absurd in a rather banal way. Freda organizes an outing to the countryside for herself, Brenda, and their co-workers, but everything goes both humorously and tragically wrong.
