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Here One Moment

Audiobook
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Wait time: About 3 weeks
0 of 114 copies available
Wait time: About 3 weeks
#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.
“The premise is irresistible—a woman on a flight from Hobart to Sydney begins predicting the age and manner of death of her fellow passengers. Beautifully written, this propulsive novel has a serious theme. Could be a great . . . present for that special someone.”—Stephen King
“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?
Flight attendant Allegra Patel loves her job, but today is her twenty-eighth birthday and she’d rather not be placating a plane full of passengers unhappy about a long delay. There’s the well-dressed man in seat 4C desperate not to miss his daughter’s musical. A harried mother frantically tries to keep her toddler and baby quiet. Honeymooners still in their wedding finery dream of their new lives, while a chatty emergency room nurse dreams of retirement.
Suddenly a woman traveling alone stands. She walks down the aisle making predictions about how and when passengers will die. Some dismiss her, they don’t believe in psychics. Some are delighted with her prophecies! Their lives will supposedly be long. Others are appalled.
Then: a few months later, the first prediction comes true.
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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    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from July 15, 2024
      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. Agent: Faye Bender, the Book Group.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrators Caroline Lee and Geraldine Hakewill weave the threads of this tense exploration of free will. Everyone on a delayed flight across Australia is tired and frustrated as they await reaching their destination. Suddenly, a nondescript woman stands and begins pointing to fellow passengers and stating how they will die and when. She won't remember this later--when the predictions start coming true. Lee voices Cherry, the Death Lady, with petulant sincerity, smoothly undercutting her seeming villainousness as her past unfolds. Hakewill portrays the other passengers as they struggle to forget the predictions or change their destinies. As she skillfully varies her tone to reflect the many travelers, Hakewill's narration creates the sense that they are united in fear and hope. N.M. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine
    • Library Journal

      Starred review from December 1, 2024

      Moriarty's (Apples Never Fall) latest follows travelers stranded on a delayed Australian flight between Hobart and Sydney. Nerves are at a breaking point when an older woman stands, points at a nearby passenger, and states how and when he will die. Without pausing, she moves on to predict the deaths of the others--everyone from an infant (drowning at age seven) to a new bride (intimate-partner homicide at age 25) to a gentle flight attendant (self-harm at age 28) who haplessly tries to put an end to the prognostications. Caroline Lee, a longtime and much-lauded narrator of Moriarty's audiobooks, voices the older woman--Cherry, who, much to her horror, comes to be known as the Death Lady. Lee's depiction of Cherry is a tour de force, capturing her infectious warmth, her sorrow over the predictions she made, and her remembrances of the relationships that shaped her over the years. Geraldine Hakewill portrays the other passengers, sensitively conveying their panic and dread as they try to disprove Cherry's predictions and consider fate and free will. The novel vibrates with tension, sweetened by glimpses into the passengers' lives and tender relationships. VERDICT Unputdownable and entirely affecting, this superbly narrated audio is a must-purchase.--Sarah Hashimoto

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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