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Fifteen Seconds of Brave by Melissa Doyle

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Fifteen Seconds of Brave

The wisdom of survivors

by Melissa Doyle

Narrator Melissa Doyle

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Length 5 hours 48 minutes

Language English

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When Covid stopped the world turning in 2020, veteran journalist Melissa Doyle had already been thrown off course by life. She'd just turned 50, her eldest child had finally left home to study overseas and her 25-year-long career as a popular presenter at Channel Seven had come to an end. As she began to contemplate this new chapter, the unfolding and overarching scourge of Covid threw millions of lives into disarray, causing Melissa to wonder, 'How on earth are we all going to come through this?'

While lockdowns and closed borders damaged livelihoods, relationships and the nation's mental health, Melissa found herself reflecting on some of the true survivors she'd met during her years reporting from the front lines of triumph and tragedy. Surely these people had clues on how to navigate the fallout of a one-in-one-hundred-year plague.

In this new intimate and insightful book, Melissa gathers together remarkable people who have weathered hardship, grief, torment and loss on a scale many would find hard to comprehend. In revisiting these moving and captivating stories with those who lived them, she gently draws out their wisdom, empathy and their heartfelt practical advice to anyone who's going through a difficult time or navigating change.

Self-Improvement Nonfiction

Melissa Doyle (Author, Reader)
Melissa Doyle is an award-winning journalist with more than thirty years' experience. She is one of the most well-known and trusted people in the Australian media. As co-host of Channel 7's Sunrise she covered such significant events as the Beaconsfield mine disaster, the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton, four Olympic Games, the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, the Queensland floods, Victoria's Black Saturday bushfires, multiple federal and state elections, the inauguration of Barack Obama and the election of Pope Francis.
Melissa joined the Seven Network's news team in 2013. She and the team were recognised with a Walkley Award, a Logie and three international Edward R. Murrow Awards for their live rolling coverage of the Lindt Caf� siege.
In more recent years Melissa has been a host and senior correspondent for the Seven Network's flagship news and public affairs program Sunday Night, and narrated Channel 9's Australia Behind Bars. She is currently filming This Is Your Life for Channel 7 and is the weekend breakfast host for radio station smoothfm.