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The Wedding Present: Single Sell Organism

Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 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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