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Natural Disaster
A Novel
Contributors
By Lisa Owens
Formats and Prices
- On Sale
- Jul 7, 2026
- Page Count
- 208 pages
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- ISBN-13
- 9780316596411
Price
$29.00Price
$39.00 CADFormat
Format:
- Hardcover $29.00 $39.00 CAD
- Audiobook Download (Unabridged) $24.99
- Trade Paperback (Large Print) $31.00 $41.00 CAD
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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, 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.
A high-octane Mrs. Dalloway for our hectic times, 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.” (Nathan Filer, author of The Shock of the Fall)
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“A forensic, agonizingly 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, author of Love, Nina
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“Utterly exhilarating—every page blazes with truth, hilarity, perception, and love. It’s destined to become a classic.”Jessica Stanley, author of Consider Yourself Kissed
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“Generous, funny, heartbreaking and clever—a parenting caper with profound emotional clarity. I loved it.”Lizzy Stewart, author of Alison
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“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.”Nathan Filer, author of The Shock of the Fall
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