Natural Disaster

For weeks, she has been saying it will be their special day. One absolutely 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. 'Funny, dark, absurd, pin-sharp, insightful, propulsive, unputdownable' Nina Stibbe

'Thunderously good' Nathan Filer

'Utterly exhilarating' Jessica Stanley, author of Consider Yourself Kissed

'The funniest novel I've read in years' Claire Powell, author of At the Table

'Generous, funny, heartbreaking and clever . . . I loved it' Lizzy Stewart, author of Alison

'I raced through Natural Disaster in a day' Justin Myers, author of The Glorious Dead