Bottle Factory Outing

Short-listed for the Booker Prize and named ''one of the greatest novels of all time'' by The Observer, this riveting novel shows Beryl Bainbridge at her darkly comic best.

Freda and Brenda spend their days working in an Italian-run wine-bottling factory. A work outing offers promise for Freda and terror from Brenda; passions run high on that chilly day of freedom, and life after the outing never ...