The Wedding Present: Single Sell Organism
Stephen Dalton, NME, 1 February 1992
IN THE finest novel ever written by an Englishman, Keith Waterhouse's Billy Liar, our adolescent hero fantasises about leaving a thinly-disguised Leeds for London's bohemian promise.
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