What if the only way forward… is through someone else’s past?

Éamonn Tierney drifts through the gray streets of 1980s Dublin—an adopted man with no anchor, no ambition, and a persistent emptiness he can’t explain. Working part-time jobs and haunted by dreams he doesn’t understand, Éamonn knows only one thing for certain: something is missing.

When a chance comment from a stranger unearths a memory he never lived, Éamonn begins to dream vividly of another man’s life—a coastal craftsman named Fionnán, a love named Máire, and a village by the sea called Carranmore. The dreams are too detailed to dismiss and too personal to ignore. They don't feel imagined. They feel remembered.

Driven by longing and questions that won’t fade, Éamonn sets out on a quiet but profound journey to uncover who he is, where he comes from, and what the tide might still remember. What he finds will challenge the boundaries of identity, memory, and time itself.

Lyrical, intimate, and steeped in Irish soul, Where the Tide Remembers is a story of longing, belonging, and the mystery of the lives we carry within us. For listeners of The Secret Scripture, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, and This Is Happiness, this novel is a tender meditation on memory, family, and finding home in unexpected places.