The Liar

About this book

Adrian Healey loves to lie. He lies all the time. Every minute every moment. Worse he does it wonderfully imaginatively brilliantly. He lies to buck the System to express his contempt for convention but mostly because he just plain likes to. Its fun and so much more challenging. It is high camp. One creates when one prevaricates. "Doesnt everyone think the way I think?" says Adrian of his various inventions. Like the pornographic novel by Charles Dickens his career as a Piccadilly "rent-boy" hireable by the hour his stressful work as a drug "mule" smuggling illegal substances. He has (as his Cambridge tutor observed) "a fine brain but a dreadful mind." Already in his public school career marked by privilege and pederasty he had lost the ability to differentiate between simple truth and his elaborate fictions. The Liar is as wicked and witty as unspeakably (and unquotably) funny as its protagonist narrator - and as irresistible as its multi-talented author Stephen Fry. Mr. Frys credits grow daily. He is the star of a film entitled Peters Friends and of Masterpiece Theaters television series Jeeves and Wooster. He is half of the Fry and Laurie comedy team he has written a play called Latin and the book for the musical Me and My Girl and he is a weekly columnist for the London Daily Telgraph. He is also now the author of the #1 English bestseller The Liar which spent several months at the very top position on the British charts. In the literary firmament it has been identified as somewhere between Oscar Wilde and Saki.