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The Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 27: ‘Molly Fox’s Birthday’ by Deirdre Madden
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The April Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Deirdre Madden about her novel ‘Molly Fox’s Birthday’. “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. 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. – Colm Tóibín Deirdre Madden is a novelist. She has published eight novels for adults, including Authenticity, Molly Fox’s Birthday, and most recently Time Present and Time Past. She has won many awards for her work, including The Rooney Prize, The Hennessy Award, and The Somerset Maugham Award. For the first of her three novels for children, she won the Eilis Dillon Award. All her work is published by Faber and Faber and has been widely anthologised. Her novels have also been translated into several languages, including French, Italian and German. She studied English at Trinity College Dublin and has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. In 1997 she was Writer Fellow at Trinity, and since 2004 she has been teaching Creative Writing to undergraduates and on the MPhil programme in the Oscar Wilde Centre. She is a member of Aosdána Learn more about the Art of Reading Book Club and the Laureate for Irish Fiction programme: https://www.artscouncil.ie/Arts-in-Ireland/Literature/Laureate-for-Irish-Fiction/The-Art-of-Reading-Book-Club/
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The Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 27: ‘Molly Fox’s Birthday’ by Deirdre Madden
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The April Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Deirdre Madden about her novel ‘Molly Fox’s Birthday’. “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. 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. – Colm Tóibín Deirdre Madden is a novelist. She has published eight novels for adults, including Authenticity, Molly Fox’s Birthday, and most recently Time Present and Time Past. She has won many awards for her work, including The Rooney Prize, The Hennessy Award, and The Somerset Maugham Award. For the first of her three novels for children, she won the Eilis Dillon Award. All her work is published by Faber and Faber and has been widely anthologised. Her novels have also been translated into several languages, including French, Italian and German. She studied English at Trinity College Dublin and has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. In 1997 she was Writer Fellow at Trinity, and since 2004 she has been teaching Creative Writing to undergraduates and on the MPhil programme in the Oscar Wilde Centre. She is a member of Aosdána Learn more about the Art of Reading Book Club and the Laureate for Irish Fiction programme: https://www.artscouncil.ie/Arts-in-Ireland/Literature/Laureate-for-Irish-Fiction/The-Art-of-Reading-Book-Club/
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