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What reading level is The Bottle Factory Outing book? To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt: She knelt on her elbows, bottom raised in the air, and told Brenda to help her. Between them they anchored the cloth at its four corners with the basket, the cocked chickens, the bag of apples and a convenient stone. The men were shy of placing their provisions on the cloth. They held tight to their briefcases and carrier bags and sat self-conciously on the grass

The Bottle Factory Outing is a novel about the lives of two women who share an apartment in London and work at a wine factory. Brenda, who left her abusive husband in the country to come live in the city, is a shy woman who is afraid to speak up for herself and gets pushed around by other people. Freda, an outspoken dreamer, is bossy and likes to feel that she has control over her less-fortunate roommate. Freda has planned an outing for all of the employees at the factory

The Bottle Factory Outing was shortlisted for the prize in 1974. A glowing review published that year in The Sunday Times effuses, "After turning the final page of The Bottle Factory Outing one can only gasp, and grope for the right phrase. What a talent, if that is not too mild a word." By turns comic and tragic, the story centers on Freda and Brenda, roommates in a squalid London flat. They're mismatched companions in every way, but beneath surface differences, they share a despair

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