Natural Disaster by Lisa Owens review – the last day of maternity leave is a comic rollercoaster (opens in new tab)

Parenting is represented in all its hilarious, moving and truthfully plodding detail, in the story of a mother and her two little boysThe last day of maternity leave, and an unnamed mother of two decides to stage a “yes day”, full of treats and good feelings. Of course it does not go according to plan: the treats are deficient, misjudged and underappreciated; the good feelings are fleeting, quickly upstaged by anxiety, guilt or humiliation. This familiar-sounding scenario is the simple yet br...