How do you cope in a crisis?
What does it really mean to plan for the unimaginable?
How do we begin to rebuild when everything has changed?
And what’s it like to carry the weight of other people’s grief, while still finding space for our own?
Professor Lucy Easthope is the UK’s leading authority on disaster recovery and emergency planning.
When the world shifts suddenly — whether through natural disasters, terrorist attacks or global crises — she’s one of the first people called to help communities, governments, and families navigate the hardest moments of their lives.
In her beautiful and deeply moving new book, Come What May, Lucy shares the human stories behind disaster recovery — the quiet, complex, and compassionate work that so often goes unseen. It’s a book about loss, about resilience, and about what it really means to stand alongside people when everything they know has fallen away.
