Book description
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.
Stephen Fry
was born in Hampstead in 1957 and, following a troubled adolescence,
went on to study English Literature at Queen's College, Cambridge. As
well as being the bestselling author of four novels,
The Stars'
Tennis Balls
,
Making History
,
The Hippopotamus
, and
The Liar
, and two volumes of his autobiography, Fry played Peter in
Peter's Friends
, Wilde in the film
Wilde
, Jeeves in the television series
Jeeves & Wooster
and (a closely guarded show-business secret, this) Laurie in the
television series
Fry & Laurie
. More recently, he presented
Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the
Manic Depressive
, his groundbreaking documentary on bipolar disorder, to huge critical
acclaim. And his legions of fans tune in to watch him host the popular
quiz show
QI
each week.
