The classic comedy of a 50s youth trapped inside a Walter Mitty fantasy-world published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Keith Waterhouses 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 happiness lies in grand plans for his future and fantastical day-dreams of the fictional country Ambrosia.