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Book Review By Holly
The Liar by Stephen Fry

Adrian Healey, sexual star of his boarding school, secret lover of the blonde and beautiful Hugo Cartwright, spends his gap year as a rent boy in Piccadilly. Once at Cambridge, he discovers a lost Dickens' manuscript, the pornographic story of the seduction of a blonde and beautiful boy.

Adrian's compulsive lying is matched only by the cunning of his tutor Donald Trefusis, who is himself caught having sex in a public toilet, before recruiting Adrian for MI5.


Plot & Themes
Tone of book? - humorous
Time/era of story - 1960's-1970's
Kids growing up/acting up? Yes
Kids: - struggling to earn a living to survive
Kind of sex: - really kinky sex - two guys doing it
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Age group of kid(s) in story: - college
Something wrong upstairs/downstairs? - searching for identity/meaning
Wild kid(s)? - committing crimes

Main Character
Gender - Male
Profession/status:
Age: - a teen

Main Adversary
Identity: - none

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 8 ()
Europe Yes
European country: - England/UK - France - Germany

Writing Style
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - touching of anatomy - actual description of hetero sex - two guys doing it
Lot of foul language? Yes
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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