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I Found My Tribe
- Narrated by: Ruth Fitzmaurice
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Women
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Summary
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.
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- Chloe
- 24-11-17
Beautiful! even more special as read by author.
superb, true life with all the giggles, tears and treasured moments of a mother and wife dealing with difficulties thrown at her.
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- Sue
- 01-11-18
Beautiful
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.
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- S. A. Taylor
- 16-07-21
I love this book
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 🧜♀️
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- MelsNextChapter
- 31-03-21
Not so much about swimming as I expected
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.
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- Bronagh K
- 12-07-19
Amazing.
An amazing story. I don't know how they all found the strength to go on. An unforgettable read/listen to on audible.
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- Miss L A Dunlop
- 18-03-19
awkward
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.
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- Amazon Customer
- 17-02-18
A difficult listen
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.
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- Anonymous User
- 14-02-18
chaotic and disjointed
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.
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- Kindle Customer
- 20-01-18
A book for these times!
Poignant and so funny, it had me gripped from the beginning. Though it didn't reach the conclusion expected!
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- Yule Glowacki
- 06-10-18
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.
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- Amazon 3
- 08-01-22
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narration was glorious. Thank you for sharing your story. tough topic and experience. recommended read
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- maureen
- 08-04-19
EXCELLENT
The passion was palpable and the reader full of compassion, energy, talent and the ability to keep me engaged for one whole day
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- L. Galbo
- 02-11-18
This is a treasure
Tender, all out take no prisoners funny, heartbreaking and completely remarkable. Can't imagine anyone else narrating.