Fiction. Darkly comic and more than a little disturbing, BILLY AND GIRL introduces a version of childhood trauma that is completely original and unnerving. Abandoned years ago by their parents, Billy and Girl live alone somewhere in England. Girl looks for their mother by going door-to-door and addressing every woman who answers as Mom, and Billy fantasizes about a future in which he will be famous-- preferably in the United States-- as a movie star, a psychiatrist, a doctor to blondes with breast enlargements, or the author of Billy England's BOOK OF PAIN. Contemporary, slick and sassy, it's also profoundly serious, combining massive abstractions-- love, desire, the universality of pain-- with the diminutive in a way that's often witty, sometimes lyrical and, amazingly, very rarely trivializing --Guardian.