**SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER***A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*’A gripping account, filled with compassion.’ – Sunday Times’Exemplary and displays a painstaking sensitivity.’ – New Statesman’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.’ – Telegraph’A remarkable account…that it is ultimately hopeful and uplifting, is down to the utter human decency that the author represents’ – Mail on Sunday ‘Enthralling…though laced with bleak humour, this vivid and humane book forces readers to look into some exceptionally dark places’ – ObserverLucy Easthope lives with disaster every day. When a plane crashes, a bomb explodes, a city floods or a pandemic begins, she’s the one they call. Lucy is a world-leading authority on recovering from disaster. She has been at the centre of the most seismic events of the last few decades, advising on everything from the 2004 Boxing D