The Liar

Author: Fry, Stephen

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 5 August 2004 by Cornerstone (Arrow Books Ltd) in the United Kingdom.

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