“If someone predicted your precise time of departure from this Earth and the circumstances, would you embrace it and alter your life’s ways, patterns and experiences?”
This is the foundation block for Liane Moriarty’s new novel Here One Moment.
One woman’s hypnotic, mesmerizing rants from passenger to passenger on a flight from Hobart to Sydney, are delivered ‘like a pebble’ but when some ‘predictions’ are seen to be fulfilled, the passengers feel like her predictive words ‘hit like a boulder’.
The flight incident is a moment in time and from that a series of side stories emerge as the reader discovers the little connections throughout the novel – such is Liane Moriarty’s exceptional writing craft that creates context and ‘aha’ moments along the way.
There’s nervous anticipation and worry as to what may become of each traveler’s lives after the flight but leads to thoughtful resolutions – that was satisfying as a reader but this is the tension Here One Moment brings.
A most satisfying read delivered with depth and plot lines to thoughtfully consider.
Macmillan Publishers Australia
ISBN 9781760785031