“But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as thoroughly as another man's truths - if other men had truths - and he believed it possible...”
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<b>The brilliant and outrageous debut novel from British actor, comedian, author, presenter, journalist and national treasure, Stephen Fry.</b><br> <br> 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.<br> <br> <br> <b>Praise for <i>The Liar</i>-</b><br> <br> 'A quite brilliant first novel' <i>Sunday Times</i><br> <br> <i>'</i>Sublime' <i>Cosmopolitan</i><br> <br> '<i>The Liar</i> 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' <i>Literary Review</i>
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