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Natural Disaster

A 'very funny and very, very relatable' novel - one of Stylist's 2026 Best Fiction Picks
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Natural Disaster

De : Lisa Owens
Lu par : Katherine Parkinson
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'Hilarious, brilliant, utterly exhilarating' MONICA ALI
'Funny, sad, tender and perfectly observed' IRISH TIMES
'Fantastic' JESSIE BURTON
'Hilarious ... brilliantly sharp' RED MAGAZINE
'Funny, sharp unputdownable' NINA STIBBE
'Very funny and very, very relatable' STYLIST, 2026 BEST FICTION PICKS
'An extremely funny book that's both perceptive and propulsive' ADAM KAY
'Spiky wit and unsentimental pathos ... I laughed out loud' DAILY MAIL

For weeks, she has been saying it will be their special day. One last, perfect day with her children before she returns to work after maternity leave. What's the worst that can happen?

Unfolding across 24 hours, Natural Disaster is a novel about the absurd, frustrating, hilarious, precarious, bittersweet, sometimes astonishing challenge - literal, existential - of being a woman, a mother, a wife, a person for one single, entire day.

'I did not give Lisa Owens permission to look inside my very soul but she seems to have done it anyway. Smart, wise and real' CLAIRE LYNCH
'Captures the absurdity, tenderness and frazzle of modern motherhood with acute, painfully recognisable humour' iPaper, Best Books for June
'I absolutely loved it' LUCY DIAMOND
'Compulsive, agonising, and hilarious' CHRIS POWER
'The funniest novel I've read in years' CLAIRE POWELL
'Brilliant, hilarious, gut-punchingly truth-telling' EMILY ITAMI
'Thunderously good' NATHAN FILER
'A genuinely dazzling novel' DAVID WHITEHOUSE
'This is the book I've been waiting for ever since I had children. So propulsive I read it in a single sitting' MARIANNE LEVY
'Destined to become a classic' JESSICA STANLEY
'What a perfect depiction of early motherhood, womanhood, and love' OLIVIA POTTS
'I absolutely adored it.' EMMA HUGHES
'Generous, funny, heartbreaking and clever' LIZZY STEWART©2026 Lisa Owens Fiction Fiction contemporaine Vie de famille
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Funny, sad, tender and perfectly observed ... I suspect a lot of readers will come away from this novel feeling understood in a way that's genuinely rare
Gorgeously captures what it's like to be a mother. Very funny and very, very relatable
Hilarious, but also a brilliantly sharp commentary on the many demands of modern life
Plenty of female novelists have written about the nightmarish disorientations of early parenthood. Few have done so with the comic finesse Owens applies here ... Owens ploughs well-trodden territory with spiky wit and unsentimental pathos .... I laughed out loud
Owens captures the absurdity, tenderness and frazzle of modern motherhood with acute, painfully recognisable humour
I absolutely loved it . . . A forensic, agonisingly relatable account of the highs and lows and in-betweens of one whole ordinary day in a life with two small children. Funny, dark, absurd, pin-sharp, insightful, propulsive, unputdownable (Nina Stibbe)
Lisa Owens lays bare the pains, perils and joys of motherhood, all captured over the course of a single day. Hilarious, brilliant, utterly exhilarating
An extremely funny book that's both perceptive and propulsive. Triggering, in all the best ways, for anyone who's ever had small children in their lives
I absolutely loved it. The joy, the madness, the pettiness, love and ingenuity of a day with two small children is brilliantly observed. Lisa Owens asks what it is to be a mother - and this is the answer. Perceptively, tenderly told, every page provokes humour, recognition, great empathy and often all three at once. The ordinary becomes the extraordinary in Lisa Owens' writing
Eminently readable, recognisable and reassuring. I read this in a day. One Dalloway-esque day, a million catastrophes, the intense highs and lows of being a mother, a partner, a woman in this world. It's fantastic
Deeply relatable and unbearably tense, Lisa Owen's brilliant Natural Disaster explores all the complexity and tenderness of parenthood in Lisa's singular voice - crisp, witty and full of heart. The high priestess of minute observation!
With Natural Disaster Lisa Owens pioneers a new genre: the white-knuckle domestic. A compulsive, agonising, and hilarious anatomy of modern motherhood
Utterly exhilarating - every page blazes with truth, hilarity, perception and love. Natural Disaster is destined to become a classic (Jessica Stanley, author of CONSIDER YOURSELF KISSED)
Heartbreakingly astute and wincingly relatable, Natural Disaster is also the funniest novel I've read in years
Lisa Owens mines gold from the smallest details of life. Natural Disaster is a thunderously good novel - the kind that makes you rock with laughter, shed a genuine tear, and immediately think of which friends you're going to lend it to first
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