Any Ordinary Day
Any Ordinary Day by Leigh Sales, published by Random House Australia on November 19, 2019, is a thought-provoking exploration of how individuals cope with life-altering events that often begin like any other day. In this 272-page book, Sales draws from her experiences as a journalist to investigate the resilience of ordinary people facing extraordinary challenges, including terrorism and natural disasters. Through her inquiries, she seeks to understand the nature of fear, grief, and the human capacity for recovery.
In this insightful work, Sales engages with those who have endured unimaginable circumstances, revealing their strength and humor amidst adversity. She also integrates contemporary research on how the brain processes trauma and loss, addressing questions that many prefer to avoid. This edition offers a candid account of her own experiences with mortality and the lessons learned about navigating life’s unexpected hardships, making it a relevant read for anyone interested in personal growth and the complexities of human relationships.
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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
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