Keith Waterhouse

Keith Waterhouse is one of Britain'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.<br/><br/><b>Our Song</b> 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.<br/><br/><b>Billy Liar</b> 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.<br/><br/><b>Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell</b>Gambler journalist fervent alcoholic four-times married Jeffrey Bernard writes the'Low Life' column for the Spectator magazine. Locked in The Coach and Horses in Soho overnight he has time to reflect on a dissolute life.<br/><br/><b>Good Grief</b> 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.<br/><br/><b>Mr and Mrs Nobody</b> is an adaptation of George and Weedon Grossmith's comic novel The Diary Of A Nobody and Mrs Pooter's Diary. A respectable Victorian clerk has lofty social aspirations.<br/>