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The author's tribe are her lively children and her filmmaker husband, Simon, who has Motor Neurone Disease and can only communicate with his eyes. An invocation to all of us to love as hard as we can, and live even harder, this is the author's urgent and uplifting letter to a husband, family, friends, the natural world and the brightness of life.

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The author's tribe are her lively children and her filmmaker husband, Simon, who has Motor Neurone Disease and can only communicate with his eyes. An invocation to all of us to love as hard as we can, and live even harder, this is the author's urgent and uplifting letter to a husband, family, friends, the natural world and the brightness of life.
Autorenporträt
Ruth Fitzmaurice was a radio researcher and producer when she married her husband, Simon, in 2004 and had three children. In 2008, Simon was diagnosed with ALS and given three years to live. Simon went into respiratory failure in 2010 and was accidentally placed on a ventilator during an emergency procedure. He decided against medical advice to keep the ventilator; Ruth and Simon went on to have twins in 2012. She lives in Greystones, Ireland, with her five children, two dogs and two cats.