Billy Liar

A comic story of youth, frustration, and escapism in 1950s Yorkshire on the eve of the swinging 1960s

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The story of compulsive liar Billy, who has an uninspiring dead end job as an undertaker's assistant and lives at home with his family in a sleepy Yorkshire town. His three fianc矇es fail to keep him adequately occupied and Billy leads a second life in his imagination. Billy's problems come when he is unable to separate fantasy from reality, and so embroils himself in a web of tangled lies, with painfully comic results. This edition also includes a bonus interview with Rodney Bewes, who acted in the 1963 film version. Unabridged.