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bookshelves: radio-4, spring-2011, play-dramatisation, published-1974 Read from May 26 to 29, 2011 ** spoiler alert ** Sat 28 May 201121:00BBC Radio 4Beryl Bainbridge's darkly comic novel The Bottle Factory Outing .Blurbs - It's 1970. Two Northerners, Freda and Brenda share a bedsit in London an...
I don’t really know what to make of this book. It was a quick read, it only took me a few hours to read. I found both main characters completely unsympathetic – Brenda was weak, lazy and seemed completely unable to find any joy or happiness in her life. Freda was cold and unsympathetic towards Br...
Sat 28 May 201121:00BBC Radio 4Beryl Bainbridge's darkly comic novel The Bottle Factory Outing .Blurbs - It's 1970. Two Northerners, Freda and Brenda share a bedsit in London and work in the local Bottle Factory, run by a family of Italians. On the day of the annual factory outing, the van Freda's b...