Lee Evans: The Life of Lee(Audiobook Extract) - Lee Meets Heather by Penguin Books UK

Lee Evans is one of the best-loved comedians in the country; a Hollywood star able to sell out arenas in the blink of eye.

But he was not always such a roaring success. Read unabridged by the man himself, and with the humour (and the voices!) that he brings to the stage, the audiobook edition of The Life of Lee is his utterly hilarious and very moving autobiography.

In this brilliantly entertaining and engaging tale, he also guides us through a grim teenage period of numerous dead-end jobs. When he was cleaning toilets and plucking turkeys, he could never have imagined that one day he would be playing to thousands of adoring fans at the O2 Arena.

The reading also reveals how as a boy Lee got his first taste of showbiz, living out of a suitcase and accompanying his entertainer father around the smoky, rowdy, unforgiving working-men's club and theatre circuit.

Desperately struggling to be accepted, this quiet young loner always saw himself as an outsider. But he finally met the love of his life and accidentally discovered the one place where he felt at home: the stage.

The Life of Lee is a story that is like its subject: compelling, touching, charming and, above all, fantastically funny.

'As hilarious, unsettling and forlorn as Evans himself,' The Sunday Times

'Evans's hard-luck story is a timeless tear-jerker with a Dickensian sense of pathos ... [a] remarkable a rags-to-riches saga,' William Cook, The Independent

'This man with genuine funny bones [...] might play the fool but he is clearly not as dumb as he seems,' Bruce Dessau, The Scotsman

'If comedy is the new rock 'n' roll, then behold the new Elvis Presley' The Sun