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A story about conquering fear and finding joy ... a girl from country Queensland who found a way to see (and report on) trauma and horror while still holding on to joy. Lisa Millar has spent her whole life showing up getting things done and making things happen. Despite the risks despite the fear despite life getting in the way. As a child growing up in country Queensland she had dreamed of a big life. Working as a foreign correspondent gave her that. But it also meant confronting the worst of what humanity can bring - the dead children at Sandy Hook the sorrow of grieving relatives after the Bataclan theatre terrorist attack and the aftermath of Manchester. Three decades as a journalist witnessing grief and unspeakable tragedy had a cost. And an ever-escalating fear of flying threatened to rob her of her ability to work at all. Back home in the year that everything stopped Lisa had a chance to look back. And in the quiet of a world slowed down she thought hard about the meaning of fear acknowledged her grief at what she lost and found joy in all that she gained. For that young girl from small-town Kilkivan who had to push herself to keep going push herself to conquer her fear push herself to tell important stories came the realisation that sometimes all we really need is what we already have. And she shows us that we are all stronger and more resilient than we give ourselves credit for if we just dare to let ourselves fly.
Hachette
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