About the Author:
In a long and highly successful career, Keith Waterhouse has published fourteen novels, including BILLY LIAR (which has been filmed and staged), OUR SONG (also staged) and, most recently, the critically acclaimed SOHO. He is also the author of seven non-fiction books and seven collections of journalism. He has written widely for television, cinema and the theatre, including the highly successful play JEFFREY BERNARD IS UNWELL, and writes an award-winning column for the Daily Mail. He has also published two acclaimed memoirs, CITY LIGHTS and STREETS AHEAD.
Review:
'A wonderful comedy about indolence and underachievement by a very "unDuffyesque" writer who proves with his 15th novel that he is as gifted as ever.' -- Harry Ritchie, Mail on Sunday 'Funny and light-hearted [and] written with what appears to be an airy ease ... With the lightest of touches, Waterhouse brings Duffy, and us, to a hard place; where things are as they really are.' -- Allan Massie, Scotsman 'Duffy's self-delusion and his heroic amount of displacement activity keep our sympathy ... [the] sense of small-scale tragedy comes through more strongly for being so comically told.' -- David Horspool, Sunday Times 'Waterhouse writes so well about those staples of comic literature: the shabby boarding house, the faded splendours of the louche seaside town. The seediness of Brighton is wonderfully evoked ... engrossing and frequently very funny' -- David McLaurin, Tablet
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