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Hodder acquires new book from disaster planner Lucy Easthope in exclusive submission
Hodder Press has acquired a new book about coping after crisis from disaster planner Professor Lucy Easthope in an exclusive submission. Executive publisher Kirty Topiwala bought world English language rights to Come What May: Life-Changing Lessons for Coping with Crisis from Jo Unwin at JULA in an exclusive submission.
Hodder published Easthope’s first book When the Dust Settles, a memoir about her career in disaster recovery, in 2022, which then went on to be a bestseller. It was also named Radio 4 Book of the Week and became a Telegraph and New Statesman Book of the Year.
In her new book, Come What May, Easthope focuses on "how all of us can weather the storms we face in life, unleashing strengths we never knew we had and feeling equipped to cope with whatever comes next, whether it’s bereavement, redundancy, a life-changing diagnosis, pregnancy loss or a global pandemic".
Throughout the book, Easthope uses the lessons she has learned from her work supporting the survivors of disasters as she offers practical advice to anyone living in the aftermath of a crisis, whether it is personal or national.
The synopsis continues: "Through poignant stories from events like the Salisbury poisonings, Grenfell and Gresford, she offers a roadmap for resilience in the face of adversity. Readers will learn 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."
Come What May will be published in hardback, e-book and audio in May 2025.
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Professor Easthope has been an adviser for nearly every major disaster of the past 20 years, including the 2004 tsunami, 9/11, the Salisbury poisonings, Grenfell, the Covid-19 pandemic and conflicts around the world.
Easthope said: "We are all coming back from loss and unexpected events and I am so pleased to see how mainstream thinking about this has become. It has been a real and unexpected joy to think about ways my work can help people in all sorts of situations. Again, its been a pleasure to work with Hodder [which is] the perfect home for my writing."
Topiwala said: "I am so thrilled to be working with Lucy again on a book that so many of us desperately need right now. Lucy’s uplifting, reassuring presence and unique insight comes through on every page and the book is full of surprising truths, comfort and useful advice."
