Title: I Found My Tribe
Author: Ruth Fitzmaurice
Genre: Non-fiction, memoir
Rating: 4/5
Ruth has five active children, and a husband, Simon, with Motor Neuron Disease. Simon can only communicate with his eyes. Ruth’s life is filled with children, caregivers and healthcare professionals, and her love for Simon, but she needs more.
Fortunately, Ruth has her tribe: The Tragic Wives’ Swimming Club, a group of close friends who help each other through the obstacles they face every single day in their lives, and the waves and frigid water they face in their swimming. Swimming in Greystones cove saves them, and their favorite thing is moonlight swims in the ocean under the full moon.
Sometimes, the most unlikely things can save you.
I think a lot of us are looking for our “tribe.” The fortunate ones find them. Ruth is blessed to have friends who both surround her in her difficulties—and they are so very difficult—and who can fully sympathize because of their own similar circumstances. Ruth is an amazingly strong woman: she’s raising FIVE kids essentially alone, while writing full-time and caring for a husband who needs total care and an army of medical staff. I cannot even imagine the kind of strength this takes. This book is a wonderful read about the friends who help us shine a light into the darkness surrounding us.
Ruth Fitzmaurice worked in radio before becoming a wife and mother of five children. I Found My Tribe is her first book.
Note: Ruth’s husband, Simon, passed last October.
(Galley provided by Bloomsbury US in exchange for an honest review.)
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