Molly Fox's Birthday

A Finalist for the Orange Prize

It is the height of summer, and celebrated actor Molly Fox has loaned her house in Dublin to a friend while she is away performing in New York. Alone among all of Molly's possessions, struggling to finish her latest play, she looks back on the many years and many phases of her friendship with Molly and their college friend Andrew, and comes to wonder whether they really knew each other at all. She revisits the intense closeness of their early days, the transformations they each made in the name of success and security, the lies they told each other, and betrayals they never acknowledged. Set over a single midsummer's day, Molly Fox's Birthday is a mischievous, insightful novel about a turning point--a moment when past and future suddenly appear in a new light.

Author: Deirdre Madden
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 04/27/2010
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780312429546

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/22/2010 pg. 50
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2010 pg. 170
Booklist 05/01/2010 pg. 71
New York Times Book Review 05/23/2010 pg. 19
New York Times Book Review 05/30/2010 pg. 18
BookPage 05/01/2010

About the Author

Deirdre Madden teaches at Trinity College Dublin and is a member of the Irish arts academy Aosdána.

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