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Billy Liar

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • Published: 06/08/2015

  • ISBN: 9780241973646

  • Length: 176  Pages

  • Dimensions: 181mm x 11mm x 111mm

  • Weight: 100g

  • RRP: £8.99

Billy Liar

Keith Waterhouse

The classic comedy of a 50s youth trapped inside a Walter Mitty fantasy-world, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.

Keith Waterhouse's Billy Liar was published in 1959, and captures brilliantly the claustrophobic atmosphere of a small town. It tells the story of Billy Fisher, a Yorkshire teenager unable to stop lying - especially to his three girlfriends. Trapped by his boring job and working-class parents, Billy finds that his only happiness lies in grand plans for his future and fantastical day-dreams of the fictional country Ambrosia.

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • Published: 06/08/2015

  • ISBN: 9780241973646

  • Length: 176  Pages

  • Dimensions: 181mm x 11mm x 111mm

  • Weight: 100g

  • RRP: £8.99

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About the Author

Keith Waterhouse

Keith Waterhouse was born in Leeds in 1929. He wrote extensively for film, tv and newspapers, and his play Jeffrey Barnard is Unwell was a West End hit in the 1990s. Billy Liar is his most famous book, and was an equally famous film, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Tom Courtenay. In 2009 Waterhouse announced that at the age of 80 he was giving up his longstanding column in the Daily Mail . He died in 2009.

Keith Waterhouse

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