Billy Liar, Keith WaterhouseThe 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

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