Molly Fox's Birthday by Deirdre Madden

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 in the house on Molly's birthday and attempting to finish a play she is writing, her friend finds her thoughts turn to her relationship with Molly and their old universitiy companion Andrew. And as she contemplates the past, she's left wondering why Molly never celebrates her own birthday, and how her own friendships and relationships have evolved over the course of many years. 

Molly Fox's Birthday is a moving and truthful novel about identity, friendship and how the past informs the present in ways we might never have imagined.