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Country United Kingdom Media type Print, audio & ebook ISBN 0-7156-0864-9 Preceded by The Dressmaker | 3.4/5 Goodreads Language English Pages 160 (UK) Originally published October 1974 Page count 160 (UK) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publication date Oct 1974 (UK)Jan 1975 (US) Similar The Dressmaker, An Awfully Big Adventure, Master Georgie, Every Man for Himself, According to Queeney | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Bottle Factory Outing is a 1974 novel by English writer Beryl Bainbridge. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize that year, won the Guardian Fiction Prize and is regarded as one of her best. It is also listed as one of the 100 greatest novels of all time by Robert McCrum of The Observer. The book was inspired by Beryl Bainbridge's own experiences working as a cellar girl in a bottling factory after her divorce in 1959.
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Plot introduction
It concerns Freda and Brenda who by night share a dismal bedsit, and by day work in an Italian-run wine-bottling factory in London. Freda hopes the works outing will provide opportunity for her to capture the heart of Vittorio; Brenda just aims to avoid the clutches of the lecherous Rossi. But the outing ends in tragedy.
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Film adaptation
A BBC sponsored film adaptation was planned in 1991 starring Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders with a script by Alan Plater, but the project was never made.