Una Moss was orphaned young, with no real memory of her parents or understanding of how they died. But she grew up happy with her grandda in Cobh, a village in the Sunny South, far away from The Troubles. And now she has gone up to Cork, to University, studying to be a doctor. Aidan Ferrel is an orphan, too, though he is from the North. He coaxes Una to go for tea. He is patience to her skittishness, worldliness to her innocence, certainty to her doubt. Una likes to sit by her window, fingering his letters, studying the way he writes her name. But who is this man she loves, whose touch can carry her like the sea ...