Aside from a delay, there will be no problems. The flight will be smooth, it will land safely. Everyone who gets on the plane will get off. But almost all of them will be forever changed.
Because on this ordinary, short, domestic flight, something extraordinary happens. People learn how and when they are going to die. For some, their death is far in the future—age 103!—and they laugh. But for six passengers, their predicted deaths are not far away at all.
How do they know this? There were ostensibly more interesting people on the flight (the bride and groom, the jittery, possibly famous woman, the giant Hemsworth-esque guy who looks like an off-duty superhero, the frazzled, gorgeous flight attendant) but none would become as famous as “The Death Lady.”
Not a single passenger or crew member will later recall noticing her board the plane. She wasn’t exceptionally old or young, rude or polite. She wasn’t drunk or nervous or pregnant. Her appearance and demeanor were unremarkable. But what she did on that flight was truly remarkable.
A few months later, one passenger dies exactly as she predicted. Then two more passengers die, again, as she said they would. Soon no one is thinking this is simply an entertaining story at a cocktail party.
If you were told you only had a certain amount of time left to live, would you do things differently? Would you try to dodge your destiny?
Liane Moriarty’s Here One Moment is a brilliantly constructed tale that looks at free will and destiny, grief and love, and the endless struggle to maintain certainty and control in an uncertain world. A modern-day Jane Austen who humorously skewers social mores while spinning a web of mystery, Moriarty asks profound questions in her newest I-can’t-wait-to-find-out-what-happens novel.
Aside from a delay, there will be no problems. The flight will be smooth, it will land safely. Everyone who gets on the plane will get off. But almost all of them will be forever changed.
Because on this ordinary, short, domestic flight, something extraordinary happens. People learn how and when they are going to die. For some, their death is far in the future—age 103!—and they laugh. But for six passengers, their predicted deaths are not far away at all.
How do they know this? There were ostensibly more interesting people on the flight (the bride and groom, the jittery, possibly famous woman, the giant Hemsworth-esque guy who looks like an off-duty superhero, the frazzled, gorgeous flight attendant) but none would become as famous as “The Death Lady.”
Not a single passenger or crew member will later recall noticing her board the plane. She wasn’t exceptionally old or young, rude or polite. She wasn’t drunk or nervous or pregnant. Her appearance and demeanor were unremarkable. But what she did on that flight was truly remarkable.
A few months later, one passenger dies exactly as she predicted. Then two more passengers die, again, as she said they would. Soon no one is thinking this is simply an entertaining story at a cocktail party.
If you were told you only had a certain amount of time left to live, would you do things differently? Would you try to dodge your destiny?
Liane Moriarty’s Here One Moment is a brilliantly constructed tale that looks at free will and destiny, grief and love, and the endless struggle to maintain certainty and control in an uncertain world. A modern-day Jane Austen who humorously skewers social mores while spinning a web of mystery, Moriarty asks profound questions in her newest I-can’t-wait-to-find-out-what-happens novel.
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Contemporary domestic suspense and upmarket fiction reached new international audiences through novels that dissect the hidden tension beneath suburban domesticity. Australian author Liane Moriarty became the first writer from her country to debut at number one on The New York Times bestseller list, building a wide readership through sharp observations of family dynamics, marriage, and female friendships in works such as Big Little Lies.
Born on November 15, 1966, in Sydney, Australia, Moriarty grew up as the eldest of six children in a family that encouraged reading and storytelling. Her early creative writing included a childhood mystery commissioned by her father, though she initially built a career in advertising and marketing. She eventually returned to creative writing by enrolling in a master's degree program at Macquarie University. During her graduate studies, she completed her debut novel, Three Wishes, which was published in 2003. Since her debut, Moriarty has written ten novels that have collectively sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, including four million across Australia and New Zealand.
Moriarty's fiction bridges commercial domestic drama and psychological suspense by exploring how concealed secrets, minor misunderstandings, and quiet betrayals disrupt ordinary lives. Her stories frequently center on complex female friendships, parenting, mental health, and the social expectations placed on modern women. Rather than relying on traditional thriller tropes, she constructs narrative tension by gradually uncovering multi-layered secrets through relatable characters and witty dialogue. This balance of dark underlying secrets and accessible portrayals of suburban existence has made her work widely popular and highly adaptable, leading to major television series adaptations for titles such as Big Little Lies, Nine Perfect Strangers, The Last Anniversary, and Apples Never Fall.
2 books in catalog
Contemporary domestic suspense and upmarket fiction reached new international audiences through novels that dissect the hidden tension beneath suburban domesticity. Australian author Liane Moriarty became the first writer from her country to debut at number one on The New York Times bestseller list, building a wide readership through sharp observations of family dynamics, marriage, and female friendships in works such as Big Little Lies.
Born on November 15, 1966, in Sydney, Australia, Moriarty grew up as the eldest of six children in a family that encouraged reading and storytelling. Her early creative writing included a childhood mystery commissioned by her father, though she initially built a career in advertising and marketing. She eventually returned to creative writing by enrolling in a master's degree program at Macquarie University. During her graduate studies, she completed her debut novel, Three Wishes, which was published in 2003. Since her debut, Moriarty has written ten novels that have collectively sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, including four million across Australia and New Zealand.
Moriarty's fiction bridges commercial domestic drama and psychological suspense by exploring how concealed secrets, minor misunderstandings, and quiet betrayals disrupt ordinary lives. Her stories frequently center on complex female friendships, parenting, mental health, and the social expectations placed on modern women. Rather than relying on traditional thriller tropes, she constructs narrative tension by gradually uncovering multi-layered secrets through relatable characters and witty dialogue. This balance of dark underlying secrets and accessible portrayals of suburban existence has made her work widely popular and highly adaptable, leading to major television series adaptations for titles such as Big Little Lies, Nine Perfect Strangers, The Last Anniversary, and Apples Never Fall.
