Stephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous debut novel is by turns
eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic.
Adrian Healey loves to lie. He does it all the time. Every minute, every
moment. And 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. It's fun; it's high camp. He
invents a lost pornographic novel by Charles Dickens, and for himself a
career as a Piccadilly rent boy hireable by the hour. But Adrian's lies
eventually bring realworld danger, as he finds himself caught up in the
machinations of a shadowy network that puts his own life at risk. A
dazzling, outrageous first novel that has delighted liars everywhere.