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

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I found the chapter on Grenfell particularly hard and moving to read, especially as someone who works in social housing. 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. Her work has an even more immediate resonance in the light of the invasion of Ukraine, with images of shattered apartment buildings and lines of refugees suddenly ubiquitous. The ‘artisan’ result was quietly scrapped when families complained that they had been shocked by the flecked paper, thinking that the little imperfections were bits of blood or ash.

When The Dust Settles, Lucy Easthope ( paperback March 23) ₩18,000 A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*'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 appreciated Lucy Easthope's personal focus on recovering personal items and centering the recovery on the survivors being able to grieve and move on in the best way for them. Which must be particularly frustrating for people like Easthope, for whom disaster planning is their bread and butter. Dr Firth continues to state that other social forces are a threat to be controlled and criminalized. I will also never forget that my friend’s mother was very concerned about the fact that we also had a World Trade Centre in Amsterdam. Much of this is somewhat dispiriting, but When the Dust Settles also includes a striking example of how one community managed to achieve a form of closure after 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 has been advising the Prime Minister's Office on the Covid-19 pandemic.An enthralling page-turner on the author’s impressive experience in disaster management, a facet of life most of us don’t see. Rachel Kelly, mental health advocate and author of Sunday Times bestseller Black Rainbow: How words can heal - my journey through depression. This is an incredibly timely look into the disaster and emergency planning work that goes on quietly in the background while the rest of us get on with it. As a leading adviser on disaster recovery, Lucy Easthope has often witnessed the effects of “nuclear incidents, chemical attacks, pandemics, food shortages, fuel shortages, trains and plane crashes, volcanoes and tsunamis”. And so, while the Stop the War marches made their way through the streets of London, Easthope was tracking down flags, coffins and body bags.