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I Found My Tribe

By: Ruth Fitzmaurice
Narrated by: Ruth Fitzmaurice
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Brought to you by Penguin.

An invocation to all of us to love as hard as we can, and live even harder, I Found My Tribe is an urgent and uplifting letter to a husband, family, friends, the natural world and the brightness of life.

Ruth’s tribe are her lively children and her filmmaker husband, Simon, who has Motor Neurone Disease and can only communicate with his eyes. Ruth’s other ‘tribe’ are the friends who gather at the cove in Greystones, Co. Wicklow, and regularly throw themselves into the freezing cold water, just for kicks.

‘The Tragic Wives’ Swimming Club’, as they jokingly call themselves, meet to cope with the extreme challenges life puts in their way, not to mention the monster waves rolling over the horizon.

‘I Found My Tribe is inspiring, humbling and a picture of what love really looks like’ Marian Keyes

‘Fitzmaurice tells her story in sparkling prose that is as sinewy as her new sea-strengthened body, and as admirable and boundless as her spirit’, Sunday Times

‘Uplifting and life-affirming’ Stylist

©2017 Ruth Fitzmaurice (P)2017 Random House Audiobooks Arthritis & Musculoskeletal Diseases Brain & Nervous System Physical Illness & Disease Physical Impairments & Disabilities Water Sports Women Marriage Swimming Sports

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Heartbreaking story beautifully told. A woman of amazing strength and remarkable love. I hope with time she finds peace of mind. Her love of her husband and family flies off the pages.

Heartbreaking story beautifully told

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An amazing story. I don't know how they all found the strength to go on. An unforgettable read/listen to on audible.

Amazing.

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Such a beautiful books. She portrays the role of a career so well and how you can feel out of place and the guilt and things which come with it. I just love how she didn’t really sugar coat it And how they self care time is so important for careers is shown too. She writes so beautifully eloquently and I love how lots of it rhymes. The narrator makes the book sound even more beautiful.

Beautiful

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superb, true life with all the giggles, tears and treasured moments of a mother and wife dealing with difficulties thrown at her.

Beautiful! even more special as read by author.

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Thank you Ruth for your frank and honest story. Life is hard but your remind folk that we can survive more than we believe. Thank you 🧜‍♀️

I love this book

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Poignant and so funny, it had me gripped from the beginning. Though it didn't reach the conclusion expected!

A book for these times!

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I struggled and didn't enjoy this book, although I wanted to. I found it jumped all over, lacked structure, and was very introspective.
Also I thought having the author narrate would add to it but it didn't; it was flat and had long stops between sentences.

chaotic and disjointed

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A heartwarming, sad, funny listen but I was expecting it to be more about wild swimming and less family life.
Quite non-plussed by it.

Not so much about swimming as I expected

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The book is a very personal account of a very difficult topic - living with the terminal illness and imminent death of one's husband. The approach is highly individual and almost like a stream of consciousness at times. I think a professional narrator would have given more life and drama to the audio.

A difficult listen

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I feel rotten not scoring this audiobook higher given the subject matter and that it is an autobiography, but...... I don't know if it was the narration or the editing of the narration but there were lots of big prolonged pauses that often made me think I'd lost connection/ the book was buffering, which I hadn't and the book wasn't. It became immensely annoying. The story was very sad and I feel immensely sorry for the family. It was a thought provoking insight to living with a condition as awful as MND. However, the structure of the book just wasn't my bag and if it hadn't been my book club book I would probably have ditched it a few chapters in. I think the author is an inspiring and incredibly strong woman, all credit to her to her for telling her story.

awkward

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