Lucy Easthope lives
with disaster every day. When a plane crashes, a bomb explodes, a city floods,
or a pandemic begins, she is the one they call.
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Easthope is a
world-leading authority on recovering from disaster. She has been at the center
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 Christchurch earthquake in
New Zealand, the Grenfell fire, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
In every
catastrophe, Easthope is there to pick up the pieces and prepare for the next
one. She holds governments to account, helps communities rally together,
returns personal possessions to families, and holds the hands of the survivors.
In her moving
memoir she reveals what happens in the aftermath and explores how we pick up
and rebuild with strength and perseverance. 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.
Telling her own
personal story, Easthope looks back at a life spent on the edges of disaster,
from a Liverpudlian childhood steeped in the Hillsborough tragedy to the many
losses and loves of her career.
With wisdom,
resilience, and candor,
When the Dust Settles lifts us up by showing that
humanity, hope, and humor can — and must — be found on the darkest days.
Reviews
“A book of horror
and hope, written with rare humanity.” — John Sutherland, bestselling author of
Blue and Crossing the Line
“A riveting
no-nonsense memoir that pulls back the curtains on your worst fears and shows
you that someone, somewhere, will always truly care.” — Jenny Colgan
“Outstanding ... a
graphic but deeply humane account of what drew her to take on such work, and
how she steels herself to tackle the worst of human scenarios.” — The
Bookseller
“... Generosity is
one of the things that makes the book so powerful, all the more as it never
slips into a sentimental glossing over of incompetence or insensitivity.
Easthope makes no secret of her anger, but takes care that it should be
properly understood and directed, and doesn’t create more stigma, fear,
defensiveness, and failure. Both in its style and in its substance, this is a
profoundly moral book, written with deceptive conversational ease; it opens up
a world of terrible and extreme experience, but stubbornly continues to look at
what’s there, the inner and outer landscape of what Easthope is not afraid to
call the soul.” — New Statesman
‘Enthralling ... though
laced with bleak humor, this vivid and humane book forces readers to look into
some exceptionally dark places.” —Observer
“Never less than
reassuringly humane, it does for disaster what Rachel Clarke’s Dear Life has
done for palliative medicine and Adam Kay’s This Is Going To Hurt for
obstetrics. She shows and ells and, vitally, cares.” — Telegraph
About the author
Professor Lucy
Easthope is the UK’s leading authority on recovering from disaster. She has
been an advisor on nearly every major disaster of the past two decades,
including the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, 9/11, the 7/7 bombings, the Salisbury
Poisonings, Grenfell, and most recently, advising the Prime Minister’s Office
on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Easthope grew up
in Liverpool and has a degree in law, a PhD in medicine, and a Masters in risk,
crisis, and disaster management. She is a professor in Practice of Risk and
Hazard at the University of Durham and a fellow in Mass Fatalities and
Pandemics at the Center for Death and Society, University of Bath.
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