Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty, just published in August this year, is already moving towards a screen adaptation.

The adaptation of Here One Moment will be brought to the screen by Made Up Stories and Nicole Kidman and Per Saari’s Blossom Films.

Liane Moriarty’s Apples Never Fall was adapted into a series, starring Sam Neill and Annette Bening.

BOOK REVIEW

What would you do if someone told you your baby would die by drowning at age seven, or that you would be the victim of intimate partner homicide, when your husband is a kind and loving man?

Moriarty grabs your attention immediately and keeps you there until the last full stop. The story is told with simplicity, humour and plenty of endearing Aussie references.

On a delayed flight from Hobart to Sydney, nerves are tested, but on what is an otherwise smooth flight, something extraordinary happens. A woman walks through the cabin pointing at passengers and predicting how and when they will die.

Everyone gets off the plane safely, but some of them will be forever changed; their predicted deaths are in the near future. Moriarty meanders through their lives exposing how each of them deals with their impending fate. The mother of the soon-to-be drowning boy starts him at swimming school, even though he’s only six months old. Each vignette examines the concepts of free will and destiny, of fate and control, of love and devastation.

When the first ill-fated passenger dies as predicted, anxiety rises, a blog is created so passengers can ‘stay in touch’ and soon the unremarkable psychic woman is being feted as ‘The Death Lady’. When two more die, what is the probability that she is right?

The Death Lady has her own compelling story. She is not unremarkable. She is a complex and interesting woman and one who has little memory of what happened that day.

This is a brilliantly constructed tale. My best read for 2024 so far.

Reviewed by Sue Stanbridge

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Liane Moriarty is the Australian author of nine internationally bestselling novels: Three Wishes, The Last Anniversary, What Alice Forgot, The Hypnotist’s Love Story, The Husband’s Secret and the No. 1 New York Times bestsellers Big Little Lies, Truly Madly Guilty, Nine Perfect Strangers and Apples Never Fall. Her books have sold more than twenty million copies worldwide, including four million in Australia and New Zealand.

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