#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 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.
