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An acclaimed reporter takes us on an unforgettable journey, capturing the human capacity for love and connection against all odds. We live in an era defined by crisis - whether it be war and displacement, climate collapse, or growing inequality, and how the powerful profit from violence and exploitation. Celebrated foreign correspondent Sally Hayden has spent her career on the frontlines, uncovering some of the darkest moments of our time. Yet even in the face of unimaginable adversity, she''s witnessed the incredible goodness of regular people. In This Is Also a Love Story , Hayden reexamines catastrophe through the love stories she has come across. She introduces us to a mother in northeast Nigeria who risks everything to save her daughter from forced marriage to Boko Haram militants, and to a group of Syrian women who have tirelessly searched for their missing spouses and children, while launching a call for justice. We meet a couple separated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and read letters from the bereaved to the dead, still being written over a decade after the tsunami that devastated Japan. Through these stories, which crisscross the globe, from Uganda to Lebanon, Ghana, Rwanda and Iraq, she challenges us to reconsider what it means to be alive on this planet today. What if news was recounted through the prism of the actions and decisions people take for those they love? Would it become harder to dehumanize those who seem different to us? This Is Also a Love Story dares us to recognise how innate generosity and self-sacrifice can be found in even the most difficult of times, and - as a result - to question what might be needed to create a better world.
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Sally Hayden is an award-winning journalist, photographer and author. She is an international correspondent for the Irish Times and has reported all over the world for an array of outlets, including CNN International, TIME, the BBC, the New York Times and Al Jazeera. Her first book, My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route- about the treatment of refugees trying to seek safety in Europe - won the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, the An Post Irish Book of the Year Award, the Michel Déon Prize and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. She was included on the Forbes '30 Under 30' media figures in Europe in 2019. In 2022, she won the International Award at Irish Tatler's Women of the Year Awards. She is also an adjunct professor at the UCD Sutherland School of Law.
