Freda and Brenda are friends spending their days in an Italian-run wine-bottling factory in North London.
When a works outing materializes it offers promise for Freda, but terror for Brenda. Unexpected passions run high on the chilly day of liberty and their lives are never the same again.
‘An outrageously funny and horrifying novel.’ Graeme Greene
Marvellous Therapy
I first met Beryl Bainbridge in 1982, when I went to interview her friend and editor Anna Haycraft for Books & Bookmen. I was later to discover that Beryl practically lived at the Haycrafts’ house...
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