num_pages: 244
description: 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 whove 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 shes learned about coping with lifes 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 dont know we have.
language: English
title: Any Ordinary Day
publisher: Penguin eBooks