From award-winning author Thomas Moran comes the breathtaking story of a young woman's betrayal, a haunting portrait of the extraordinary beauty and inexorable violence of a divided Ireland. 

Thomas Moran made his impressive literary debut only three years ago with THE MAN IN THE BOX, winner of the Book-of-the-Month Club's Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction. The New Yorker compared THE MAN IN THE BOX to the diary of Anne Frank, and the Los Angeles Times compared Thomas Moran to Elie Wiesel. On the heels of this success came what Booklist predicted would be "for many. . .the best book of the year." THE WORLD I MADE FOR HER confirmed the depth and breadth of Moran's talent. "Now, to A Farewell to Arms and The English Patient," Time magazine harkened, "add another memorable star-crossed Red Cross romance." 

And now, in what will surely be his most acclaimed novel yet, Tom Moran's spare, piercing language effortlessly carries us to the harbor towns of southern Ireland. Una Moss is a bright, young medical student struggling for independence from the world of her family's secret loyalties. Aidan Ferrel is the man who wins her love, the stranger she chooses to trust. WATER CARRY ME is the story of a singular love pitted against the power of political passion—the chronicle of a young woman's journey from innocence to betrayal, across the vivid brightness and darkness that is the heartbreaking landscape of her beloved Ireland.