Grenfell Hope, Gaby Doherty
Grenfell Hope, Gaby Doherty
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Grenfell Hope
Stories from the community

Author: Gaby Doherty

Narrator: Gaby Doherty

Unabridged: 5 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: SPCK

Published: 06/14/2018


Synopsis

Gaby and her husband Sean and their four children live in a flat across from Grenfell Tower, and Sean (a Church of England minister) was the first clergy person on the scene. This book stems from personal experience of the impact of the fire. It features the testimony of and commentary on the community that experienced it, and the amazing stories of hope that followed in its wake.
Grenfell Hope will help readers understand what it was like living in North Kensington before and after the fire. It will help engage the reader with poverty issues, to examine attitudes to the poor and to consider how even small gestures in everyday life can change local communities. In the desperate situation of the fire, God was at work in people’s hearts bringing hope in tiny gestures that mounted up to something enormous. Hope that couldn’t be ignored or even contained. Hope sprang out all over the country.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lisa on November 15, 2020

An account of the Grenfell Tower fire from a neighbour but mostly focussed on the stories of hope, support and community in the aftermath. Although it emphasises that the efforts are multifaith/non-faith across the board (and that it brought everyone together regardless of belief etc), there is a lo......more

Goodreads review by Hannah on December 13, 2019

Such a good book to read, obviously full of pain - Gaby doesn't hide the rawness of her and her community's feelings in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy, and the wounds which linger on - but she also fills the pages with an insuppressible hope in the goodness of humanity and of God. Story afte......more

Goodreads review by Ian Bramley on September 12, 2022

A book which should challenge all of us. Reading it several years after the Grenfell fire, it is important to not forget this horrendous disaster and to continue to hold the issues of inequality up to the light.......more

Goodreads review by Jane on October 01, 2018

Good to read and hear the stories of courage and the community......more

Goodreads review by Tanya on December 19, 2018

Gaby is a dear friend who was on the ground, living opposite when the Grenfell Towers burned down and ministering in that community. This was my (long!) endorsement for her book: “How do we offer hope when disaster comes to our door? In this timely book, Doherty offers a rare perspective: the eyewitn......more