Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| I Found My Tribe | 2017 | Buy |
Ruth Fitzmaurice is an Irish writer and filmmaker. Her memoir I Found My Tribe (2017) tells the story of her family life with her husband Simon, a documentary filmmaker diagnosed with motor neuron disease (ALS), and their five young children. The book describes how a group of wild sea swimmers on the coast near her home in Greystones, County Wicklow, became a lifeline for her during the most difficult years of caregiving.
The memoir is as much about community and friendship as it is about grief. Fitzmaurice writes about the cold Irish Sea, the women who swam with her through all weather, and the way physical endurance became a form of emotional survival. The book was widely praised in Ireland and the UK for its honesty and its refusal to sentimentalize either illness or the people who live around it.