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title: Telling stories as part of bushfire recovery
description: Chrissy Guinery has always been a storyteller, and even as she and her family were surrounded by dangerous fires, her social posts – shared to let friends know how they were faring – became essential reading as a window on the tragic 2019-20 bushfire season. Soon people were urging her to write a book about … Continue reading “Telling stories as part of bushfire recovery”
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# [Telling stories as part of bushfire recovery](https://fiftydays.com.au/bookblog/2020/05/16/telling-stories-as-part-of-bushfire-recovery)

 Written by [Peter Hallett](https://fiftydays.com.au/bookblog/author/peter-hallett) | May 16, 2020 1:01:25 PM

Chrissy Guinery has always been a storyteller, and even as she and her family were surrounded by dangerous fires, her social posts – shared to let friends know how they were faring – became essential reading as a window on the tragic 2019-20 bushfire season.

Soon people were urging her to write a book about the experience and within about 50 days from the worst of the fires, she had done just that. The result is *When The Smoke Clears: Surviving the Australian bushfires* and it is available now.

**In this moving video**, created for us by [Boats Media](https://www.boatsmedia.com.au/) (who excel in content ‘based on a true story’) Chrissy speaks of the challenge of writing as it brought her back to the fires, the loss, the grief but then the journey onwards into recovery.

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