Sweet, fat, theatrical Billy-Boy was never cut out to be a farmer, but as his father¿s only son he¿s obliged to try. The cows are wayward and the chores are gruelling, but Billy finds escape in a fantasy world. A place where the turnip paddock becomes a lunar landscape, a lavender bed jacket a slinky space suit, a cow¿s tail a head of beautiful blonde hair, and where Billy can become Judy Robinson, heroine of TV¿s 'Lost in Space'. But in an isolated conservative farming community in 1970s New Zealand, not everyone approves of Billy¿s transformation. On the brink of adolescence, Billy is beginning to discover that growing up is far more complicated and confusing than he could ever have imagined. While the mysteries of sex confound him, emotions are unleashed which urge Billy to betray those closest to him. '50 Ways of Saying Fabulous' is a poignant and endearingly comic novel. Anyone who grew up in a small town, grew up feeling that they didn¿t fit in, or simply grew up will find this book funny, touching and unforgettably evocative of childhood lost.