Here One Moment
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4.5 • 35 Ratings
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- $18.99
Publisher Description
If you knew when you were going to die, what would you do differently?
It all begins on a flight from Hobart to Sydney. The flight will be smooth. It will land safely. Everyone who gets on the plane will get off the plane.
But almost all of them will be changed forever.
Because on this ordinary flight, something extraordinary happens. 'A lady', unremarkable until she isn't, predicts how and when many of the passengers are going to die. For some, death is far in the future; for others, it is very close.
A brilliantly constructed story that looks at free will and destiny, grief and love, and the endless struggle to maintain certainty and control in an uncertain world. Liane Moriarty is a modern-day Jane Austen who humorously skewers social mores while spinning a web of mystery and asking profound, universal questions.
Praise for Here One Moment
'Liane Moriarty is a genuine GENIUS. Here One Moment is off the scale brilliant' Marian Keyes
Praise for Liane Moriarty
'Liane Moriarty produces novels that are miracles of structure as well as human insight' Sydney Morning Herald
'Like drinking a pink cosmo laced with arsenic' USA Today
'Emotionally riveting' Washington Post
'Funny and scary' Stephen King
'One of the few authors I'll drop anything for' Jojo Moyes
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The setup for Liane Moriarty’s 10th novel, Here One Moment, is deceptively simple: a mysterious woman walks down the aisle of a flight from Hobart to Sydney, confidently informing each passenger of the time and place of their future death. One passenger posits she’s a “clairvoyant gone rogue”. What follows is wonderfully classic Moriarty—an expertly woven narrative that shifts between the perspectives of a handful of passengers, each confronting their existential dilemmas in the aftermath of this unsettling experience. The novel is both introspective and thrilling, delivering jaw-dropping moments as it spirals into more profound meditations on destiny, grief and the struggle for control in an unpredictable world. As always, Moriarty’s characters are vividly drawn and richly developed, with their vulnerabilities and fears revealed with nuance, making Here One Moment a tapestry of human emotion.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A woman upends strangers' lives by predicting their deaths in the powerful latest from bestseller Moriarty (Apples Never Fall). Travelers aboard a delayed flight from Hobart, Australia, to Sydney are already on edge when a woman stands, points at a fellow passenger, and pronounces, "I expect catastrophic stroke. Age seventy-two." She moves down the aisle, foretelling the causes and ages of death of several more passengers before the cabin crew intervenes. She then sleeps until landing and disembarks as though nothing had happened. Most assume the "soothsayer" has mental health problems—until one of her prognostications comes true three months later. Everyone is rattled, but none more than the other passengers she hit with premonitions: a nurse apparently slated to get terminal cancer, a young mother and swim instructor whose child will supposedly drown, and starry-eyed newlyweds whose marriage (which their families look down upon) will purportedly end in "intimate partner homicide." Moriarty's meticulously plotted tale—which follows each of the doomed passengers as they reckon with their alleged fate—rivets even as it thoughtfully contemplates free will, determinism, and the value of living passionately. The exquisitely rendered characters earn readers' full investment as they contemplate how much credence to give the Damoclean sword hanging over their heads, and the pinwheeling narrative maintains near-constant tension. Moriarty has outdone herself.
