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When the dust settles : stories of love, loss and hope from an expert in disaster

Easthope, Lucy Catherine2022
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Lucy Easthope lives with disaster every day. When a plane crashes, a bomb explodes, a city floods or a pandemic begins, she's the one they call. As one of the world's leading experts on disaster she has been at the centre of the most seismic events of the last few decades - advising on everything from the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami to the 7/7 bombings, the Salisbury poisonings, the Grenfell fire and the Covid-19 pandemic. She has travelled across the world in this unusual role, seeing the very worst that people have to face, and finding that even the most extreme of situations, we find the very best of humanity. In her moving memoir she reveals what happens in the aftermath. She takes us behind the police tape to scenes of destruction and chaos, introducing us to victims and their families, but also to the government briefing rooms and bunkers, where confusion and stale biscuits can reign supreme.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2022.
Collation:
291 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781529358247 (hbk)
Language:
English
BRN:
3043783
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