A review by melissadeemcdaniel
The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge

3.0

After reading a review of “The Bottle Factory Outing” by Beryl Bainbridge, I returned to this neglected ARC which I received from NetGalley to see what the fuss was about. I’m still not sure! The book is very evocative of time and place. Brenda and Freda are two English women working in an Italian bottle factory in London. They are wildly out of place in the factory, and even in their own lives. Strange and disturbing things happen. In soap-opera-esque fashion, melodramas occur. The book was ok, but certainly not great.