Description

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.

Stephen Fry’s breathtakingly outrageous debut novel, by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic.

‘Hilarious’ Literary Review

‘Sublime’ Cosmopolitan

Publisher Review

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 *