Compassion and fortitude in the face of disaster!

Lucy tells a story filled with compassion, determination and fortitude.

The authors voice is soothing, even when covering difficult subjects. Her ability to be funny, at the right times, and even laugh at herself, shines through.

I can picture her bubbly, smiling self as I listen.

Not just an emergency planners book, but of interest and value to every human interested in stories of other humans and their wellbeing.

A wonderful book, filled with a struggle to ensure emergency planning includes a future focused human impact lens.

While listening I often fought to control my emotions. How can one woman make such a difference while dealing with their own personal challenges.

You cannot but admire what Lucy has achieved and lost, fought and become.

Thank goodness she is fighting for us all and for our future recovery from disaster!

She is an expert at it.

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Fascinating

Couldn’t stop listening, this was a fascinating account of a very interesting career doing such an important job. Thank you Lucy Easthope for all you have done for the victims of disasters.

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Fascinating and moving book

This is more than just a book about responding to emergencies it is a fascinating look at the authors work and life trying to respond to some of the biggest emergencies and tragedies of recent times whilst facing some of her own. It provides interesting accounts of how these events are dealt with and planned for, the compassion and humanity of the planners and how things can go wrong. It was interesting, moving and at times even funny. Highly recommend.

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Fabulous book

Thank you Lucy for producing and narrating a very informative book. You show great human compassion throughout.

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Fascinating

Not sure I’ve left an audible review before, but this was by far the best audiobook I’ve listened to in a long while. Fascinating from start to finish, on a subject I never even knew existed. Loved the way Lucy Easthope interwove personal (sometimes very personal) stories with the tragic events with which she was involved, and the fact this was narrated by the author (well, I should add) made it all the more powerful.

I will be recommending this to friends, for sure.

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Humbling and Reassuring

Here speaks one of those 'experts' so feared and derided by our government during the pandemic. Years of experience of the most difficult kind, meticulously analysed data and focussed humane attentiveness to human behaviour in and after disasters of all kinds gives Lucy Easthope a unique degree of clarity and understanding. Her expert advice would have helped us avoid many of our most dubious responses to the pandemic as it unfolded. There was nothing intrinsically different about our pandemic from other Covid-type pandemics elsewhere. The one person we needed to help our govt make the many difficult decisions needed from March 2020 onwards was either ignored or listened to with bad grace. I'm so glad to have read this and wish the author continuing success and wide recognition for her enormous contribution to our world.

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A must listen

A really excellent look behind the scenes into the world of emergency planning and response, from an expert in the field.
Both accessible and informative, the book provokes thought and consideration.

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Incredible from start to finish

I finished this within 7 days, what an incredible journey, strangely inspiring despite the very tragic circumstances that are revealed across its pages.

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Compelling and Enlightening

I found this book compelling, enlightening, affirming and devastating. the way Lucy weaves the disasters she responds to with her personal disasters is beautifully done
as a recent graduate in emergency planning, listening to this made me feel a new level of determination and a deeper understanding of the realities of our industry.

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A Must

Everyone should read this book, in fact it should be on the school curriculum.
Beautifully delivered by the author, it was a joy to listen to - even though heartbreaking in many places. The epilogue moves one to tears.

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