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Narrator

Leigh Sales

Leigh Sales is one of Australia’s most respected journalists. As the anchor of the ABC’s flagship current affairs program, 7.30, she has interviewed dozens of world leaders and celebrities, including Hillary Clinton, Tony Blair, Henry Kissinger, the Dalai Lama, Paul McCartney, Patti Smith, Harrison Ford, Leonardo DiCaprio and Julie Andrews. She has interviewed every living Australian prime minister and also anchors the ABC’s federal election coverage. Leigh is the winner of two Walkley Awards, Australia’s highest journalism honour; the author of the books Detainee 002 and On Doubt; and the co-host of a popular podcast called Chat 10, Looks 3 with Annabel Crabb.

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Title:

Any Ordinary Day: Blindsides, Resilience and What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life (MP3)

Written by:

Leigh Sales 

Read by:

Leigh Sales 

Format:

Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

1 

Duration:

6 hours 29 minutes 

MP3 size:

268 MB 

Published:

April 28 2019 

Available Date:

April 28 2019 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781489499219 

Genres:

Non-fiction; Biography 

Publisher:

Bolinda/Penguin Audio Australia 

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Price

Bolinda price

AUD$ 39.95

AUD$ 39.95

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Bestseller

Longlisted Australian Book Industry Award / General Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2019

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.

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