Come What May, Lucy Easthope
Come What May, Lucy Easthope
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Come What May
An uplifting guide to navigating hard times from the UK's leading expert on recovery

Author: Lucy Easthope

Narrator: Lucy Easthope

Unabridged: 7 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Hodder Press

Published: 05/15/2025


Synopsis

An uplifting guide to navigating hard times from the leading expert on recovery

'A shining beacon of sense and wisdom. We can all benefit from reading this brilliant book about how to respond with resilience.' RACHEL CLARKE
'An unlikely superhero' SUNDAY TIMES
'An amazing woman' JAMES O'BRIEN

We all know that at some point in life, we will experience pain, uncertainty and loss. Widowhood, redundancy, a life-changing diagnosis, pregnancy loss, or a global pandemic. So how can we weather the storms, and cope with whatever comes next?

No one can answer this better than Lucy Easthope, an emergency planner whose job is to support survivors of major disasters. She has been there after countless earthquakes, fires and floods. Time and again she has watched how people rebuild: the work, the pitfalls and the fragile joy. In Come What May, she distils for us what she has learned about how to carry on during and after terrible times.

Through poignant stories and hard-won wisdom, she offers a roadmap for resilience in the face of adversity. She explains what shape the recovery journey might take, how to triage your life in an emergency, how to plan for 'the slump' (also known as the lasagne phase), how to take stock of what has happened to you, how to watch out for 'learned helplessness', and what good (and bad) help looks like.

This is a book for all of us existing in 'the after' who want not just to survive, but to live and unleash strengths we never knew we had.

About Lucy Easthope

Lucy Easthope is the UK's leading authority on recovering from disaster. She has been an advisor for nearly every major disaster of the past two decades, including the 2004 tsunami, 9/11, the Salisbury poisonings, Grenfell, the Covid-19 pandemic and most recently the war in Ukraine. She challenges others to think differently about what comes next after tragic events, and how to plan for future ones. Lucy grew up in Liverpool and has a degree in law, a PhD in medicine and a Masters in risk, crisis and disaster management. She is a Professor in Practice of Risk and Hazard at the University of Durham, a Fellow in Mass Fatalities and Pandemics at the University of Bath and a Research Associate at the Joint Centre for Disaster Research, Massey University, New Zealand.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Corey on October 06, 2025

Firstly Thank you to Lexy Night for allowing me to be a part of the ARC readers, i haven't ever read an ARC so it was a very fun experience. (Especially getting to know what the hell happens a bit early, yes i was impatiently waiting for this book!) The next thing i wanted to mention is that I felt......more

Goodreads review by Leanna on October 04, 2025

This duology is top tier. Absolutely phenomenal from start to finish. Lexy Night has officially ruined me in the best way possible. I loved this second book even more than the first , it’s packed with action, emotion, and the kind of love triangle that keeps your heart torn in two (and you secretly l......more

Goodreads review by Kina on October 04, 2025

There was a particular pacing in book 1, and it's equally present in book 2, which occasionally almost seems to work against the drive that the narrative seems to strive for. Despite that, the story is a wild ride from start to finish and it gets very dark at certain turns. Not everyone gets plot ar......more

Goodreads review by Kayleigh on October 03, 2025

Firstly, thank you so much to Lexy for letting me be an ARC reader of this book. I have been sitting impatiently waiting for this since I finished To No End. Lexy girl you done did it again! Come What May was everything I wanted and more. I had such emotional whiplash thinking I knew what was going t......more

Goodreads review by Panda on October 21, 2025

I am very late on my ARC review due to moving, but here it is. For Lexy- HOW COULD YOU??? Now for the review. This is book 2 of the Tales of the Forgotten Fae with book one being To No End. Absolutely amazing book. Beautifully written. This book will most definitely break your heart more than once, s......more


Quotes

We all NEED this book! An essential guide to navigating the disasters each of us will have to face, written with the brilliant wisdom of a leading expert with the insightful compassion of a survivor.

Lucy Easthope is a shining beacon of sense and wisdom. None of us can avoid life-changing upheavals - but we can all benefit from reading this brilliant book about how to respond with resilience. Fascinating and empowering.