I Found My Tribe

De: Ruth Fitzmaurice

Narrado por: Ruth Fitzmaurice

Duración: 4 h y 53 m

Resumen del Editor

Ruth's tribe are her lively children and her filmmaker husband, Simon, who has motor neurone disease and can communicate only 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.

Swimming is just one of the daily coping strategies as Ruth fights to preserve the strong but now silent connection with her husband. As she tells the story of their marriage, from diagnosis to their current precarious situation, Ruth also charts her passion for sea swimming - culminating in a midnight swim under the full moon on her wedding anniversary.

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, a family, friends, the natural world and the brightness of life.

©2017 Ruth Fitzmaurice (P)2017 Random House Audiobooks

Reseñas de la Crítica

"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." (Helen Davies, The Sunday Times)

"It is beautiful, it is light, joyous.... She's almost like a poet, finding beauty in the everyday without being a sap.... You will love it so very, very much. It's going to be a worldwide bestseller. It makes you feel happy." (Marian Keyes, Marian Keyes' World)

This is a treasure

Tender, all out take no prisoners funny, heartbreaking and completely remarkable. Can't imagine anyone else narrating.

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narration was glorious. Thank you for sharing your story. tough topic and experience. recommended read

EXCELLENT

The passion was palpable and the reader full of compassion, energy, talent and the ability to keep me engaged for one whole day

Beautiful story, beautifully read, poorly edited

I loved the book, which I found to be sensitively written, deeply human and with enough humour to highlight the sorrow. It was beautifully read and I loved her voice, but it was so poorly edited that breathing and mouth-noise wasn't reduced or cut out and the pauses were all wrong. It was quite disturbing and distracting to have to listen to a lengthy pause between sentences in the same paragraph, but no pause between the end and beginning of a new chapter. It detracted from what was otherwise a perfect performance.