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Here One Moment

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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Summary and Study Guide

Overview

Here One Moment (2024), the 10th novel by international best-selling author Liane Moriarty, presents a tale in which passengers on a seemingly ordinary flight learn their exact times of death from a mysterious woman known as The Death Lady. This revelation sets the passengers on a journey grappling with fate, destiny, and their mortality as they decide how to live knowing when they will die. The book features the hallmarks of Moriarty’s writing: a narrative driven by multiple characters and a blend of humor, suspense, and meditations on philosophical issues.

This study guide uses the 2024 Kindle edition of the novel from Crown.

Content Warning: The source text and this guide contain descriptions of alcohol and substance misuse, suicide, and suicidal ideation.

Plot Summary

The novel begins as passengers board a flight from Hobart Airport in Tasmania, Australia to Sydney. Later nobody will be able to recall a petite, middle-aged lady boarding the flight. The woman, later revealed to be Cherry Lockwood, stands and begins predicting the death of each passenger and their age at death.

She predicts the deaths of the following major characters: workaholic civil engineer Leo Voldik (workplace accident, age 43), cheerful nurse blurred text
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