Beryl Bainbridge is the author of seventeen novels, two travel books and five plays for stage and television. The Dressmaker, The Bottle Factory Outing, An Awfully Big Adventure, Every Man for Himself and Master Georgie (which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize) were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Every Man for Himself was awarded the Whitbread Novel of the Year Prize. She won the Guardian Fiction Prize with The Dressmaker and the Whitbread Prize with Injury Time. The Bottle Factory Outing, Sweet William and The Dressmaker have all been adapted for film, as was An Awfully Big Adventure, which starred Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman. Beryl Bainbridge died in July 2010.
Freda y Brenda pasan sus días trabajando en una fábrica embotelladora de vino dirigida por unos italianos, Vittorio y Rossi, y comparten las noches en un deprimente estudio. No es sorprendente, pues, que la excursión que se ha organizado en la fábrica le haga tanta ilusión a Freda,...
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