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. Whats the worst that can happen?

Unfolding across 24 hours,Natural Disasteris a propulsive, funny and sharply observed novel about the absurd, frustrating, hilarious, precarious, bittersweet, sometimes astonishing challengeliteral, existentialof 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 novelthe kind that makes you rock with laughter, shed a genuine tear, and immediately think of which friends youre going to lend it to first. (Nathan Filer, author of The Shock of the Fall)