In Conversation with Fiction author Lisa Owens - Canterbury

'I absolutely loved it . . . Funny, dark, absurd, pin-sharp, insightful, propulsive, unputdownable' NINA STIBBE
'Hilarious, brilliant, utterly exhilarating' MONICA ALI
'Eminently readable, recognisable and reassuring. It's fantastic' JESSIE BURTON
'Lisa Owens asks what it is to be a mother - and this is the answer. I absolutely loved it' LUCY DIAMOND
'Very funny and very, very relatable' STYLIST, 2026 BEST FICTION PICKS
'A thunderously good novel' 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.

Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.

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