Billy Liar - Keith Waterhouse
by - written on 25/07/01, updated on 25/07/01 (Very useful, 2218 readings)
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The 1963 film Billy Liar, starring Tom Courtenay, has long been one of my favourites. There was also a TV series in the seventies of which I have fond memories. Yet for some reason I've never got round to reading the original novel. My loss. Billy Fisher is a teenager from a dull working class family in Stradhoughton, a dull ... Read the complete review
by - written on 18/05/01, updated on 18/05/01 (Very useful, 145 readings)
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I invite you to enter the kingdom of Ambrosia - a fantasy land invented by it's beloved President: Billy Fisher, in order to escape from the boring Yorkshire town of Stradhoughton in the 1950's. Billy is a compulsive liar - no, that's too harsh, he's a compulsive fantasist. Not so much an angry young man, as a ... Read the complete review
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