Any Ordinary Day Any Ordinary Day

Any Ordinary Day

Blindsides, Resilience and What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life

    • 3.8 • 5 Ratings
    • $18.99
    • $18.99

Publisher Description

The day that turns a life upside down usually starts like any other, but what happens the day after?

Dual Walkley Award-winner Leigh Sales investigates how ordinary people endure the unthinkable.

As a journalist, Leigh Sales often encounters people experiencing the worst moments of their lives in the full glare of the media. But one particular string of bad news stories – and a terrifying brush with her own mortality – sent her looking for answers about how vulnerable each of us is to a life-changing event.

What are our chances of actually experiencing one? What do we fear most and why? And when the worst does happen, what comes next?

In this wise and layered book, Leigh talks intimately with people who’ve faced the unimaginable.

From terrorism to natural disaster to simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Expecting broken lives, she instead finds strength, hope, even humour.

Leigh brilliantly condenses the cutting-edge research on the way the human brain processes fear and grief, and poses the questions we too often ignore out of awkwardness. Along the way, she offers an unguarded account of her own challenges and what she’s learned about coping with life’s unexpected blows.

Warm, candid and empathetic, this book is about what happens when ordinary people, on ordinary days, are forced to suddenly find the resilience most of us don’t know we have.

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'Warm, wise and humble.' ANNA FUNDER
'Masterfully written, revelatory and genuinely uplifting.' BETTER READING
'Asks questions most of us would only dare to think.' THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2018
1 October
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
272
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Random House Australia
SELLER
Penguin Random House Australia Pty Ltd
SIZE
1.8
MB

Customer Reviews

Nsharp8 ,

A Fascinating and thought-provoking read

Loved Leigh’s honest and empathetic discussion on a range of issues, including how survivors of tragedy rebuild their lives, the positive and negative impacts of media responses to tragic events and the likelihood of being affected by these kind of events. The biggest strength of this book is in the stories themselves and how Leigh mostly steps out of the way to let each individual tell their story in their own words.

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