WHEN THE DUST SETTLES

Britain's top emergency planner takes us behind the police tape to scenes of chaos and into government briefing rooms. When a place crashes, a bomb explodes, a city floods or a pandemic begins, Lucy Easthope's phone starts to ring. She is a world-leading authority on recovering from disaster. She holds governments to account, supports survivors and helps communities to rebuild. She has been at the centre of the most seismic events of the last few decades, advising on everything from the 2004 tsunami and the 7/7 bombings, 9/11, Hillsborough, COVID-19 pandemic, the Grenfell fire, the Salisbury poisonings and the war in Ukraine. Lucy's job is to pick up the pieces and get us ready for what comes next. Filled with high drama, and surreal twists, Lucy's book is a real antidote to despair; she is a genuine philosopher thinking through what she is doing in the mitigation of human suffering. She truly is an unlikely superhero and her book is brimming with humanity. 291pp, paperback with fairly large print.