* This wonderful novel showing Beryl Bainbridge at her darkly comic best - out for the first time as an Abacus paperback
Beryl Bainbridge wrote seventeen novels, two travel books and five plays for stage and television. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, she won literary awards including the Whitbread Prize and Author of the Year at the British Book Awards. She died in July 2010.
This is a superb novel. It is taut in construction, expansive in
characterization, vibrant in atmosphere and profoundly comic
*The Times*
The masterful restraint of Beryl Bainbridge's sentences reveals an
author in complete control of her artistry, while the book itself
displays unexpected political aptness...It is, in short, superb
prose. There are perhaps few sentences that stand out as individual
gems. But there are also few writers who offer more control and
delight line-by-line
*Guardian*
After turning the final page of The Bottle Factory Outing, one can
only gasp, and grope for the right word...Such an atmosphere of
impending doom has not been created since Brighton Rock - except
that Beryl Bainbridge is mercilessly comic instead of being
mercilessly vicious. Specialising in successive denouements, and
with her gift for collecting the most amazing detail, she is so in
control of her marvellous little story that one hangs on her words
from first to last. What originality, what pleasure
*Sunday Times*
Two very complex, funny female characters... They need each other
although they would never admit it
*Maxine Peake*
An outrageously funny and horrifying novel
*Graham Greene*
How well Bainbridge uses both recognizable and even common
circumstances and, this time, outright humor as shock absorbers...
She's a considerable writer - sharp and knowing
*Kirkus*
Bainbridge's barbed wit is underpinned by poignant failed dreams...
This is a winner by any measure
*Daily Mail*
There is a uniquely northern comedy in Beryl Bainbridge's novels...
It chimes with life's absurdity and hard-won wisdom
*The Times*
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