# The Liar

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- Book: [The Liar](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-fry/the-liar) ([The Liar.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-fry/the-liar.md))
- Authors: [Stephen Fry](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-fry)
- Publisher: arrow
- ISBN: 978-00-9945-705-3
- Pages: 400
- Published: 2021-05-20
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The brilliant and outrageous debut novel from British actor, comedian, author, presenter, journalist and national treasure, Stephen Fry. 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. Praise for The Liar : 'A quite brilliant first novel' Sunday Times ' Sublime' Cosmopolitan ' 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