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Billy Liar

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…was followed by the best-selling Billy Liar (1959), its hero a young man who compensates for his mundane existence by a series of fantastic daydreams. Billy Liar was turned into a successful play in 1960, a film in 1963, and a musical in 1974. Together with Willis Hall, Waterhouse wrote…
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