The Liar

Stephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous debut novel, by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic. Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too for the afternoon in Salzburg when he will witness the savage murder of a Hungarian violinist; unprepared to learn about the Mendax device; unprepared for more murders and wholly unprepared for the truth.The Liar is a thrilling, sophisticated and laugh out loud hilarious novel from a brilliantly talented writer. "A quite brilliant first novel" * Sunday Times * "The Liar is hilarious - page after page of the most outrageous and often filthy jokes, delicious conceits, instant, brilliant ripostes that would only occur to ordinary mortals after days of teeth-grinding lunacy" * Literary Review * "Brilliantly entertaining and consistently outrageous" * Daily Mail * "Sublime" * Cosmopolitan * "It is very unfair it took joseph heller seven seven years to write catch 22. Stephen seems to have knocked this one of wet Wednesday afternoons in Norfolk" Hugh Laurie