Trade Paperback
9780143789963
October 1, 2018
Hamish Hamilton
272 pages
Audio Download
9780143792819
October 1, 2018
Penguin Random House Australia Audio
EBook
9781760144173
October 1, 2018
Penguin eBooks
272 pages
Staring at the Sun
The day that turns a life upside down usually starts like any other. You open your eyes, swing your body out of bed, eat breakfast, get dressed and leave the house, your mind busy. As you close the front door behind you, rarely is there a tingle of unease that something is off. Later, when the story of what happened next comes to be told, it will start with the day’s deceptive ordinariness, something that will now seem incredible. How could a blindside so momentous have struck on a day that began so unremarkably?
In late 2014, the news media was dominated by two such days, so unimaginable in their endings that they rattled even those of us far removed from the events. On the afternoon of November 25, a sparkling spring day, a young cricketer, Phillip Hughes, was fatally struck by a ball during a game. And on December 15, at morning tea time in a Sydney café, a gunman took eighteen people hostage, two of them – Katrina Dawson and Tori Johnson – killed by the siege’s end.
Continue ReadingInvestigating how ordinary people endure the unthinkable, Leigh Sales’ latest work will spark conversation at your next book club.