Picador
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.
Kamila Shamsie
Marilynne Robinson
Samantha Hunt
Samantha Harvey
Ellen Feldman
Deirdre Madden
Ann Weisgarber
Miriam Toews
Curtis Sittenfeld
Kamila Shamsie
Preeta Samarasan
Marilynne Robinson
Gina Ochsner
Michelle De Kretser
Samantha Hunt
Samantha Harvey
Allegra Goodman
V Ganeshananthan
Laura Fish
Ellen Feldman
Bernardine Evaristo
Lissa Evans
Gaynor Arnold
Debra Adelaide
Toni Morrison
Deirdre Madden
Barbara Kingsolver
Ruth Ozeki
Susanna Clarke
Maggie O'Farrell
Tayari Jones
Kamila Shamsie
Naomi Alderman
Lisa McInerney
Ali Smith
Eimear McBride
A.M. Homes
Madeline Miller
Téa Obreht
Barbara Kingsolver
Marilynne Robinson
Rose Tremain
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Lionel Shriver
Andrea Levy
Valerie Martin
Ann Patchett
Kate Grenville
Linda Grant
Suzanne Berne
Carol Shields
Anne Michaels
Helen Dunmore
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