Billy Liar

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