Lee Evans is one of the best-loved comedians in the country; a Hollywood star in a position to sell out arenas in the blink of eyesight.

But he was not usually such a roaring achievement.

Read unabridged by the person himself, and with the humour (and the voices!) that he brings to the stage, the audiobook release of The Life of Lee is definitely his utterly amusing and very shifting autobiography.

Charting his fluctuations on the way to the top, Lee will take us on the darkly humorous journey through his childhood spent about THE LIFE SPAN of Lee working wild on a Bristol housing estate and his unconventional college days, when he was publicly derided as ‘a failure’ with a sadistic teacher.

In this brilliantly engaging and interesting tale, he also guides us through a grim teenage period of numerous dead-end jobs. When he was cleaning toilets and plucking turkeys, he could do not have dreamed that one day he would be playing to a large number of adoring enthusiasts in the O2 Arena.

The reading also reveals how as a boy Lee got his first taste of showbiz, living out of the suitcase and accompanying his entertainer father around the smoky, rowdy, unforgiving working-men’s club and theatre circuit.

Desperately struggling to be accepted, this quiet young loner constantly saw himself simply because an outsider. But he finally met the like of his lifestyle and accidentally discovered the one place where he experienced at home: the stage.

THE LIFE SPAN of Lee is a story that is like its subject: compelling, touching, charming and, above all, fantastically funny.