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Here One Moment

Written by: Liane Moriarty
Narrated by: Caroline Lee, Geraldine Hakewill
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved author of Big Little Lies, Apples Never Fall, and The Husband’s Secret comes a moving novel of love, marriage, family, and trying to find certainty in a fragile world.

“A riveting story so wild you don’t know how she’ll land it, and then she does, on a dime.”—Anne Lamott

AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR


Life is full of twists and turns you never see coming. But what if you did?

The plane is jam-packed. Every seat is taken. So of course the flight is delayed! Flight attendant Allegra Patel likes her job—she’s generally happy with her life, even if she can’t figure out why she hooks up with a man she barely speaks to—but today is her twenty-eighth birthday. She can think of plenty of things she’d rather be doing than placating a bunch of grumpy passengers.

There’s the well-dressed man in seat 4C who is compulsively checking his watch, desperate not to miss his eleven-year-old daughter’s musical. Further back, a mother of two is frantically trying to keep her toddler entertained and her infant son quiet. How did she ever think being a stay-at-home mom would be easier than being a lawyer? Ethan is lost in thought; he’s flying back from his first funeral. A young couple has just gotten married; she’s still wearing her wedding dress. An emergency room nurse is looking forward to traveling the world once she retires in a few years, it’s going to be so much fun! If they ever get off the tarmac. . . .

Suddenly a woman none of them know stands up. She makes predictions about how and when everyone on board will die. Some dismiss her. Others will do everything they can to make sure her prophecies do not come to pass. All of them will be forever changed.

How would you live your life if you thought you knew how it would end? Would you love who you love or try to love someone else? Would you stay married? Would you stop drinking? Would you call up your ex-best friend you haven’t spoken to in years? Would you quit your job?

Intricately plotted, with the wonderful wit Liane Moriarty has become famous for, Here One Moment brilliantly looks at friends, lovers, and family and how we manage to hold onto them in our harried modern lives.

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Genre Fiction Psychological Women's Fiction Aviation Destiny Wedding Exciting Heartfelt Transportation Fiction
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What the critics say

“Unputdownable . . . [a] propulsive, philosophically rich saga.”Oprah Daily

“In Here One Moment, Australian author Liane Moriarty takes readers on a wild ride as passengers deal with love, heartbreak, and careers, all while contemplating whether fate and destiny are real—and whether the outcome can be changed. It’s a captivating book that keeps you reading till the end to find out what happens to the passengers and just who Cherry really is.”—Jeanine Herbst, news anchor, NPR

“Terrifically crafted . . . By turns bighearted and sardonic, Here One Moment ponders such imponderables as free will, providence, love, death.”The Wall Street Journal

Editorial Review

Liane Moriarty always keeps me guessing
Between character, setting, and plot, I’m pretty much always a character person. And while the characters in Here One Moment are each fascinating and complex in their own right, I was blown away by Liane Moriarty’s plotting. The narrative is so intricately layered, each detail so carefully placed, that it left me awestruck. Our central character, Cherry, is on a flight when she stands up and proceeds to predict the age of death and cause of death for the passengers onboard. What unfolds from there is a riveting and chaotic meditation on free will versus fate as the passengers deal with the predictions in different ways once back in their real lives. It’s a compulsive listen, performed by Moriarty’s longtime collaborator Caroline Lee as Cherry and Geraldine Hakewell as the other passengers, and one I will be recommending for the rest of the year.— Katie O., Audible Editor

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A reminder to enjoy life

I loved how there were so many characters with such different stories! There weee some subtle one liners that I didn’t see coming, and I found myself laughing out loud. It’s a great story and a reminder that we only have one life to live.

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LOVED this book!

Really enjoyed the story, the reading, all the accurate descriptions, the sharp humour, and observations. Great listen!

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Great story lines

The woven connections between the people on the plane, the finding of Cherry, and their reflections that improved their own lives.

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Loved everything about it.

True original!
All of the narrators were fantastic. Cherry added so much to the character and the Indian voices gave me a warm chuckle (adorable).
This book spoke to me. I have strong math/statistics tendencies in my family, but also religious beliefs and a love of art and music and this book weaves them all together beautifully. As others have said: “thought provoking”.
Not gonna lie, I teared up a few times at the end there.

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Moving and Entertaining

At times humorous and other times devastating, this novel is right up there with Moriarty’s others. Loved the narration as well. Highly recommend.

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A wonderful journey.

The narration is perfect. The story is a wonderful journey through human behaviour around the idea of life, death, grief and hope. I loved it.

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Perfect performance

I wish I could give even more stars for the audible performance!! It was fantastic!

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Was expecting so much more...

I thought this was going to be something extraordinary but what nothing? so disappointed. I wish I would get back those 15h of my time.

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Incredible Original Story

Love the characters development and how they all interacted. The depiction of grief in all age and stage. I love how the story began it was quite gripping.

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Loved everything about this!

The story and the narration were excellent. Cheri made me laugh. I didn’t want it to end!

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