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Author Liane Moriarty prefers not to discuss herself
The author of “Big Little Lies” and several other best-sellers has a new novel, “Here One Moment.” Promoting it doing any publicity remains a challenge, she said.
Updated 2024-Oct-06 11:34
Liane Moriarty poses for a portrait, sitting down, looking straight at the camera.
Isn t it fascinating to consider how that type of thing occurs? If you were not aboard the plane or if you had a book perhaps that moment would not have occurred.
I agree perhaps it wouldn t have. It didn t occur to me. It s ironic how they want you to be invisible but now they want you to be a comedian.
Don t act strange and reserved even though that s your nature! That is the type of individual who authors books.
Would you like me to share the tale of how I conceived this book? Please proceed. I was on a flight leaving Hobart Tasmania a small island state in southern Australia.
The flight was postponed and I was seated without a book. While scanning my surroundings a positive idea crossed my mind that each individual aboard this aircraft will eventually pass away.
Reflecting on it now I believe there was a purpose behind my contemplation on the topic of mortality.
Liane Moriarty has reached a level of success few authors can claim. She has written eight best sellers including Big Little Lies Apples Never Fall and The Husband’s Secret.
Several of her novels have been adapted for television in limited series that star actors including Nicole Kidman Reese Witherspoon Annette Bening and Meryl Streep.
All told Moriarty has sold more than 20 million books. Despite all that success the author shows little interest in becoming a brand.
In fact she doesn’t particularly enjoy talking about herself. But Moriarty 57 has a new book: Here One Moment which will be published on Sept.
10. And so ahead of her book’s release Moriarty spoke to The Times in a video interview from her home in Sydney about her work habits the challenges of doing publicity and how one moment can change the course of a life.
Her new novel explores that conceit. It is about a woman on a flight from Hobart in Australia to Sydney who stands up mid flight and starts telling passengers how and when they will die.
She walks down the aisle of the airplane points at them one by one and names their end pancreatic cancer age 66 or intimate partner homicide age 25.
To begin with my sister was diagnosed with breast cancer and shortly after that my father passed away right as the pandemic started.
Thus we experienced the pandemic where we all began confronting death directly. Afterwards I was told that I had breast cancer.
My sister and I are doing well at the moment but once you reach your 50s those around you typically begin receiving diagnoses.
Every time I hang out with my friends we always start by discussing our health problems it s unbelievable! You spend the remainder of your life in disbelief about aging.
So I was pondering about the concept of mortality and then!.
