A new novel by popular Australian author Liane Moriarty is coming later this year.
Crown will publish Moriarty’s Here One Moment this summer, the press announced in a news release. It calls the novel “a deft rumination on free will and destiny and our innate need for certainty in an uncertain world.”
Moriarty made her literary debut in 2004 with the novel Three Wishes and followed that up a year later with The Last Anniversary. In 2013, her book The Husband’s Secret became a bestseller, as did her next four novels: Big Little Lies, Truly Madly Guilty, Nine Perfect Strangers, and Apples Never Fall.
Her books have proved popular with Hollywood. Big Little Lies was adapted into an Emmy-winning television series starring Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon, while Nine Perfect Strangers formed the basis of a Hulu show with Kidman, Melissa McCarthy, and Regina Hall. Apples Never Fall was adapted into a miniseries starring Annette Bening and Sam Neill that premiered earlier this year.
Here One Moment will follow passengers on a domestic flight who are unsettled when an older woman predicts when and how some of her fellow travelers will die. “Most are able to convince themselves this encounter was nothing more than the ravings of an unwell woman—that is until her predictions start coming to pass,” Crown says.
Here One Moment is scheduled for publication on Sept. 10.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
