Andrew Lownie
and utterly unintimidated by extremist orthodoxy
The book's hundreds of practical lessons
In My Time of Dying is part medical drama
From a derelict post-Soviet mining town in Kazakhstan
Natural Disaster by Lisa Owens mammals Andrew LownieFor 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 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.