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

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Leigh Sales Leigh Sales

Any Ordinary Day

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

Leigh Sales, Leigh Sales

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Bolinda/Audible Audio
28 April 2019

Biography: general; Audiobooks - Non-fiction

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.

By: Leigh Sales
Read by: Leigh Sales
Imprint: Bolinda/Audible Audio
Country of Publication: Australia
Edition: Unabridged edition
Dimensions: Height: 134mm, Width: 146mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 156g
ISBN: 9781489499202
ISBN 10: 1489499202
Publication Date: 28 April 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: CD-Audio
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Any Ordinary Day: Blindsides, Resilience and What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life

'Masterfully written, revelatory and genuinely uplifting, Any Ordinary Day reminds us of our strength and endurance, even when faced with the darkest of days.' -- Better Reading 'In her inimitable style, Sales asks questions most of us would only dare to think.' -- The Sydney Morning Herald