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

Lisa Owens

2 Reviews

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Family & relationships

Unfolding across 24 hours, Natural Disaster is a propulsive, darkly funny and sharply observed novel about a woman trying to construct the perfect day for her and her children - from the acclaimed author of Not Working.

'Hilarious, brilliant, utterly exhilarating' MONICA ALI
'Funny, sharp unputdownable' NINA STIBBE
'Fantastic' JESSIE BURTON
'Very funny and very, very relatable' STYLIST, 2026 BEST FICTION PICKS
'I absolutely loved it' LUCY DIAMOND
'Compulsive, agonising, and hilarious' CHRIS POWER
'Brilliant, hilarious, gut-punchingly truth-telling' EMILY ITAMI
'The funniest novel I've read in years' CLAIRE POWELL
'Thunderously good' NATHAN FILER

One perfect day. A million catastrophes.

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 propulsive, darkly funny and sharply observed 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
'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

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

  • 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

  • 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

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