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

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

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

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A resolve to be a giant among men, to conquer, plunder and seize the greatness that he thinks is his right. It allows you to make up your own mind on what score the UK government gets for its capacity to plan and organise for the worst.

Subtitled 'Stories of love, loss and hope from an expert in disaster', this is a surprisingly uplifting read.Lucy Easthope is a remarkable person and the story of her career in disaster recovery, intertwined with her personal memoir, is, in turn, horrifying, saddening and ultimately inspiring. On Page 50 Lucy says: “ As long as there were disasters, there would also be people heading out to help” (Easthope, 2022, p. Over the course of her career, and particularly since the 2012 London Olympics, Easthope believes there has been “a slow rot” in British disaster planning, with the focus shifting from a “genuine interest in public perception and resilience in the face of emergencies to ‘optics’. With NHS psychiatrist Dr Rob Freudenthal, we designed the health/power/criminality-nexus to try and make sense of what was going on. 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.

And speaking of smells, though there are apparently “some similar compounds in fresh-cut grass, semen, particular vegetables, animal meat and menstrual blood”, nothing quite matches the “assault on your nasal passages” of decomposing bodies. Lucy’s work and calm resolve has helped me to make sense of my anger and frustration at the war on dissent and the moralizing and stigma, but she has helped me personally more than she will ever know. Her tasks in such situations range from identifying bodies and recovering victims’ personal belongings to “relocating people who have lost their homes to floods, and planning ahead for possible future disasters”. When Billy can’t find the informant, he wonders if Kate is secretly harboring her, since the two grew close during Kate's weeks undercover.

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. I encountered the poverty and addiction and isolation and inequality that has blighted so many of our lives. 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. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. Lucy Easthope is none of these things, but instead she is a leading authority on recovering from disaster.

Without doubt Lucy is THE subject matter expert when it comes to DVI and has advised governments, ministers and specialist teams at some of their most challenging times! Reading it you could be forgiven for thinking that if you ever did come across Lucy Easthope socially, it would mean something terrible was either about to happen or just had happened, and you might be tempted to cross the road and meet someone else instead. She also looks back at the many losses and loves of her life and career, and tells us how we can all build back after disaster. Lucy is one of those rare individuals that sees value in all experiences and seeks to teach us that perfection and imperfection are woven together. I loved that alongside the narrative were the family events and the angst and suffering that the family experienced over time.

It was interesting to read how risks are detailed and managed and how various organisations interlink to ensure the recovery processes are followed in line with current best practice. For over two decades she has challenged others to think differently about what comes next, after tragic events.

She shares how both her aunt and uncle were coroners and she did work experience with them as a young woman, when others of us are manning photocopiers or working as cleaners' assistants.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 still does affect Liverpudlians, to the extent newsagents still refuse to sell one of Britain's biggest selling daily tabloid newspapers on its shelves. I enjoyed how Lucy brings in touches of her personal life and how disasters from her childhood and adolescence like Hillsborough influenced her career as a disaster expert, as well as how her career and the disasters she dealt with interplayed with her personal life. Despite a number of pre-Covid planning exercises, “the guidance coming out of central government on how to ready for the dead of pandemic. It also takes a look at other major disasters including 9/11, MH370 and the Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004.



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