Natural Disaster

LISA OWENS is a novelist and screenwriter. Her debut novel Not Working was a BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime, and published to wide critical acclaim. Her short fiction has appeared in the Irish literary magazine The Stinging Fly. Lisa's first screenplay Days of the Bagnold Summer was nominated for a BIFA (Best Debut Screenwriter). She lives in London with her family.

Funny, sad, tender and perfectly observed ... I suspect a lot of readers will come away from this novel feeling understood in a way that's genuinely rare