In this moving excerpt from I Found my Tribe, debut author and mum-of-five Ruth Fitzmaurice describes the freedom she feels as she dives into the sea. It’s an escape from her restricting role as carer for her husband, who has motor neurone disease…
trauma
Family
When she was two years old, Susannah Birch’s mother cut her throat. She tells us about the childhood abuse she suffered, finding solace in the internet and then being groomed by an older man who she online dated for three years…