![]() She wears floral dresses and cardigans and suffers from arthritis in her ankles and hips. She does not drive, and has trouble telling left from right. “I am the collector of a very specific type of story and the keeper of a very particular type of secret sorrow,” she has written.Įasthope is not how you might picture an emergency responder. Depending on the assignment, Easthope might find herself immersed at a scene for days, months, or years. She has worked on almost every major emergency involving the deaths of British citizens since the September 11th attacks, a catalogue of destruction and surprise that includes storms, suicide bombings, air crashes, and chemical attacks. ![]() Easthope, who is forty-four, is one of Britain’s most experienced disaster advisers. ![]() ![]() In another time, or another place, Lucy Easthope says, she would have been a fortune-teller-a woman of opaque origin and beliefs, who travelled from campfire to town square, speaking of calamities that had come to pass and those which hung in the stars. ![]()
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