Keith Waterhouse is one of Britainrsquo;s most popular writers in nearly every field. This collection brings together for the first time his most celebrated plays from a career spanning more than forty years. Our Song is a warm; tender; romantic drama; infused with moments of great humour. Pulling himself out of the rut of his middle-aged executive lifestyle; Roger Piper stumbles into a sixteen-month tempestuous affair.Billy Liar tells the story of a funeral parlour worker with a humdrum life; who spends most of his time dreaming of ways to escape his drab existence in Yorkshire. Adapted from his celebrated novel.Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell Gambler; journalist; fervent alcoholic; four-times married Jeffrey Bernard writes thelsquo;Low Lifersquo; column for the Spectator magazine. Locked in The Coach and Horses in Soho overnight; he has time to reflect on a dissolute life. Good Grief is a sensitive; wryly humorous study of a middle-aged widow; coming to terms with bereavement; who finds the courage to break with the past.Mr and Mrs Nobody is an adaptation of George and Weedon Grossmithrsquo;s comic novel The Diary Of A Nobody and Mrs Pooterrsquo;s Diary. A respectable Victorian clerk has lofty social aspirations.
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