Water, Carry Me: Summary and book reviews of Water, Carry Me by Thomas Moran, plus links to an excerpt from Water, Carry Me and a biography of Thomas Moran.

The breathtaking love story of a young woman's betrayal, a haunting portrait of the extraordinary beauty and inexorable violence of a divided Ireland. In what will surely be his most acclaimed novel yet, Moran 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 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. "Thomas Moran . . . can immerse you utterly in whatever moment he chooses to describe." --The New York Times Book Review

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Publishers Weekly [The] swift-moving narrative is sure to carry the reader in its currents.   Kirkus Reviews The horror of Irelands never-ending Troubles assumes human form in this vividly dramatic (if ill-proportioned) third novel by the versatile Moran....The very real strengths here are Morans forceful characterizations of the sentient, credibly intelligent Una and the intriguing, soft-spoken Aidan. But the story that Moran plunges his characters into is overfamiliar and marred by an ending that rushes Una to judgment, leaving the sense that there must be even more to her tale than weve been told.   Library Journal This is a well-crafted, haunting tale filled with very human characters caught in a web much bigger than themselves.

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