When the Dust Settles: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'A marvellous book' -- Rev Richard Coles

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Although the focus is on her career, she also shares intimate details of her personal life; miscarriages, her lifelong battle with dyspraxia and her husband’s health challenges (an atypical type of Mėnière’s disease) and the reminder ‘The hardest part of working in disaster in going home…. A note: I recently had the privilege of meeting and hearing from the author shortly after reading this book at the HSJ Patient Safety Congress, and what a treat her lecture was. In 2005, when suicide bombers activated explosives in three locations on the London underground and another on a London bus, Easthope – who was on the tube herself at the time – sprang into action.

Dr Rhiannon Firth gave a wonderful paper during the seminar event below about anarchy and mutual aid, drawing from work on disaster capitalism. As a child who grew up in the shadow of the Hillsborough Soccer tragedy she looks at disasters from the perspective of the aftermath and the long tail of recovery. And according to the residents of the Japanese island of Okinawa - the world's longest-living people - finding it is the key to a longer and more fulfilled life.After Lucy Easthope lost her first baby to a miscarriage, she kept everything, from the pregnancy test and her first scan to the hospital appointment slips, in a brightly coloured shoebox. It was such an eye opening read and at times incredibly frustrating, when you could see that there was a better way of doing something but that those with the authority to make changes refused to listen. Her husband at one point experienced a medical emergency, and Easthope talks about how in hospital she was convinced her husband had died. I feel relieved that there are people like Easthope out there, thinking of worst-case scenarios, advising people who might be in great emotional turmoil. The availability of DNA testing has resulted in greater efforts to recover even the tiniest of body parts.

As Easthope chronicles her own journey, we start to witness how the British government has gradually changed in its approach. But this doesn’t fully explain her motivations, or the makeup of an individual who sees the “beauty of [human] decomposition and the way that we break down into our constituent chemicals and minerals”. I loved that alongside the narrative were the family events and the angst and suffering that the family experienced over time. Waking up 117 years later, Bob discovers his mind has been uploaded into a sentient space probe with the ability to replicate itself. These are historic events we all think we know but in this moving memoir Lucy lifts the curtain and reveals what really happens.

Mum described it not as a book that she couldn't put down but one which she had to, repeatedly, to be able to finish it. Best-selling author Mark Manson brings his signature no-nonsense wisdom back to the subject he started his career covering: relationships. Through this memoir, she shows you the meticulous care required n her harrowing job, the logistical nightmares, the clean-up required and most importantly, the human costs and the long-lasting fallout.

The Tools is an extraordinary psychological model based on the proven methods of Hollywood's greatest psychotherapists. Find a balance between the negative stresses of a life in readiness and fear and the comfort of 'being prepared'. Dr Firth continues to state that other social forces are a threat to be controlled and criminalized. She stated that if mutual aid is discursively recast as ‘social capital’ then only sections of ‘civil society’ that are palatable to the state and which it can capitalize on and control are seen as acceptable.She challenges others to think differently about what comes next after tragic events, and how to plan for future ones. In When the Dust Settles we see how over the years the UK government becomes less invested in investing in disaster planning. Despite a number of pre-Covid planning exercises, “the guidance coming out of central government on how to ready for the dead of pandemic. I was taught early on about the beauty of decomposition and the way we break down into our constituent chemicals and minerals, so dead bodies, in whatever state, have never horrified me, although the stories they tell sometimes do ” — When the Dust Settles. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a US Armed Forces icon and one of the world's top endurance athletes.