New Molly McCloskey novel a thriving marriage of fiction and autobiography

Molly McCloskey’s novel, When Light is Like Water, is about an American woman who moves to Ireland and falls in love, and then divorces, as she did, says Sue Leonard

THE endorsements on the back of Molly McCloskey’s new novel are not only eulogistic; they are literary gems. And when Molly’s publicist informs us that the editor had rarely received such universal praise for a book, Molly smiles, and agrees that the feedback has been good.

Is she not excited? Doesn’t she feel that, with such words from the likes of Anne Enright, she can now die happy? She looks at me, and laughs.