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* 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 -- Sam Jordison * 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 *
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