'It's the same small world; it just depends who you are and how you see it' BIRTHDAY GIRLS is Annabel Giles' sparklingly compulsive debut. Set on six different birthdays, and dealing with six different women who are all connected to each other, though they don't all realise it, the story opens with Scarlett, on her 10th birthday, and closes with Constance, on her 60th birthday. Funny, tragic and engrossing, BIRTHDAY GIRLS is a must-read book from a major new voice in women's fiction.