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I Found My Tribe
- Author
- Ruth Fitzmaurice
- Narrator
- Ruth Fitzmaurice
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 6 July 2017
- Run Time
- 4 hours 53 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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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
© Ruth Fitzmaurice 2017 (P) Penguin Audio 2017
Critics Review
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One of the year’s most arresting, humbling and acute memoirs. It is a catch-in-the-throat, life-affirming work that you want to gulp down in one and recommend to all your friends. 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
The Sunday Times
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I Found My Tribe is written with such lightness of touch that it’s life-affirming, powerfully so. Yes, sometimes I was breathless from stabs of pain, but this book reads almost like poetry. In beguiling, luminous words Ruth tells her story in a seemingly scattergun way… as the overall picture builds up like a mosaic made from shiny beautiful things… I Found My Tribe is inspiring, humbling and a picture of what love really looks like. An astonishingly beautiful book by an astonishingly beautiful person
Marian Keyes
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Uplifting and life-affirming, this is a manifesto to live as hard and as well as you can
Stylist
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A powerful, emotional, poetic, funny, philosophical and courageous work of art ... a joyful, raw, urgent invitation to her readers to 'just dive' -- into the sea, and into life. Dive in, she urges, no matter what horrors life flings your way
Irish Times
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Ruth Fitzmaurice's beautiful book is an enraptured cry at life's gifts and griefs ... Life-affirming and full of love, this book is a clarion call to live life to the full: to dive in for a swim and be brave
Psychologies Magazine
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Fitzmaurice's brilliantly lyrical ear and gentle humour makes this a none-too-distant relative to the likes of Joan Didion and Cheryl Strayed
Irish Independent
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A vivid and beautifully written work, that chronicles a life of joy and frustration and coping and celebration and swimming against the tide and all those points in between
RTE Guide
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This debut is set to become a global bestseller -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly meets Calendar Girls, with a splash of Roger Deakin. It is one of a number of recent books by women riding the crest of a wild-swimming wave. Fitzmaurice's memoir, though, is likely to be the one that exerts the greatest tidal pull
The Sunday Times
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Deceptively simple prose, laced with clever imagery, emotional complexity and heart
Irish Times
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A moving memoir of family life, coping with her husband's motor neurone disease and the icy joys of wild sea swimming
Good Housekeeping
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Details
- Author
- Ruth Fitzmaurice
- Narrator
- Ruth Fitzmaurice
- Duration
- 4 hours 53 minutes
- Release Date
- 6 July 2017
- ISBN
- 9781473548633
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Memoirs, Autobiography: general, Relationships and families: advice, topics and issues, Coping with / advice about illness and specific health conditions, Swimming and diving
Synopsis
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© Ruth Fitzmaurice 2017 (P) Penguin Audio 2017
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