Molly Fox's BirthdayDublin. Midsummer. While absent in New York, the celebrated actor Molly Fox has loaned her house to a playwright friend who is struggling to write a new work. Over the course of this, the longest day of the year, the playwright reflects upon her own life, Molly_s, and that of their mutual friend Andrew, whom she has known since university. But why does Molly never celebrate her own birthday, which falls upon this day? What does it mean to be a playwright or an actor? How do relationships evolve over the course of many years?Exploring family, friendship and love, Molly Fox_s Birthday is above all a novel about identity, calling into question the ideas that we hold about who we are, and showing how the past informs the present in ways we might never have imagined. |
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