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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: She is the author behind some of the biggest books

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Speaker 2: in the world, including Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers.

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Speaker 2: Well Now, author Leanne Moriarty is back with her latest novel,

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Speaker 2: It looks like another corker here one moment, Leonne.

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Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, whoa.

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Speaker 2: How do you come up with your ideas? Do you

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Speaker 2: mind your friend's lives and experiences? How do you find

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Speaker 2: these storylines?

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Speaker 1: I do mine experiences for sure, And I'm a terrible evesdropper.

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Speaker 1: And if I'm yeah, if I'm with a friend and

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Speaker 1: they start telling me a story, then I will say,

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Speaker 1: can I use that please? But this one the idea

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Speaker 1: came to me on a plane and I was looking

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Speaker 1: at the passengers around me, and the cheerful thought came

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Speaker 1: into my head that everybody on this plane will one

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Speaker 1: day die. And then I was looking at all the

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Speaker 1: people and I was, you know, thinking well this, will

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Speaker 1: you be the person who makes it to one hundred,

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Speaker 1: which is what we all want, or will you be

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Speaker 1: the person who unexpectedly dies early? And then I was thinking,

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Speaker 1: one day that information will be available. One day we

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Speaker 1: will know exactly how each of us, including myself, sure

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Speaker 1: will have died in the future.

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Speaker 3: So the character in this cherry, she takes it upon herself.

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Speaker 3: I'm not giving much. But at the start of the book,

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Speaker 3: they're going from Hobart to city and for some reason

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Speaker 3: she gets up and starts predicting when people will die,

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Speaker 3: how they will die, and what age they will die.

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Speaker 3: And I got to tell you, when I read the

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Speaker 3: premise on the back of this book, I thought, I

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Speaker 3: don't know if I want to read this, because I've

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Speaker 3: often thought the same issue. Want to play yes, and

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Speaker 3: you think I don't want to know that stuff?

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Speaker 1: No? No, And it's interesting. When I've told some people

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Speaker 1: the premise, you see a sort of involuntary flash of

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Speaker 1: of horror. Yes, because people don't want to they don't

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Speaker 1: want to think about it. But yeah, I couldn't. I

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Speaker 1: couldn't stop thinking about it. What if somebody did start

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Speaker 1: telling you, would you believe it? Would you? How would

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Speaker 1: you change your your actions? And of course, for there

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Speaker 1: to be a story, her predictions have to start coming

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Speaker 1: true in the in the follow But it's it's not miserable.

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Speaker 3: No, No, well, yeah, it's, but it is I'm not

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Speaker 3: up to where anyone's died.

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Speaker 1: Yet, Okay, Yeah, so you just spoiler.

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Speaker 3: Did not if you get up on the plane and

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Speaker 3: say we're all going to die and you're the.

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Speaker 1: Pilot, nobody does on the plane.

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Speaker 2: With all of it, With so many of your books,

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Speaker 2: they've been turned into incredible adaptations, does that change how

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Speaker 2: you write them? I mean, you're still writing in Australian

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Speaker 2: vernacular and around Australian locations. But do you have people

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Speaker 2: in your head when you're writing now?

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Speaker 1: No, I really don't, So I don't start passing in

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Speaker 1: my mind as I'm writing, and I think it would

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Speaker 1: change the way I write if I started to think

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Speaker 1: about that too much. So for example, in Nine Perfect Strangers,

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Speaker 1: they're at a health retreat and there's a silent meditation

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Speaker 1: for days on end. So there are pages and pages

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Speaker 1: without dialogue and we're just in people's heads. So I

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Speaker 1: don't want to change that. And also something I do

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Speaker 1: a lot of is my characters are thinking one thing

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Speaker 1: but saying something else, and so I just leave that

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Speaker 1: as a problem for whoever's it somebody else.

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Speaker 3: And you've truly nailed Australian suburban life. You're very good

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Speaker 3: at that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I continue all my books will continue to

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Speaker 1: be set in Australia.

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Speaker 3: And big Little Lies work so well in America though

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Speaker 3: as far as from an American perspective.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, still from a and it was a seaside down. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of us living suburban lives. I

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Speaker 1: would get letters from people on the other side of

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Speaker 1: the world saying, I can't believe that school yard politics

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Speaker 1: are exactly the same as Sydney as they are here

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Speaker 1: in Mexico City or where.

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Speaker 3: That's the world.

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Speaker 2: So I did fall in love with the real estate

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Speaker 2: in Big Little Eyes.

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Speaker 1: I know it wasn't it gorgeous? Yeah? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: And in this you know how I imagine would be

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Speaker 3: great as Jerry is it me could be because said,

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Speaker 3: what's it about? It's a great crazy middle aged woman

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Speaker 3: walking dispensing psychology. This role.

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Speaker 1: Get told that.

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Speaker 3: I was thinking Denise Scott.

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Speaker 1: Oh, yes, yeah, I thought she could be good. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I agree. Yeah, there you go.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you must be going to dinner parties now

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Speaker 2: because people will tell you that all the time. I'll

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Speaker 2: tell you you should write a book about me. I

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Speaker 2: should write a book about what.

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Speaker 3: Happened, because we got a lot of people to say,

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Speaker 3: don't say this on the radio.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, people say don't. But more often than not they

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Speaker 1: do say I've got a story for you, and you

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Speaker 1: can you can use this.

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Speaker 3: Have you heard anything that's good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Mostly when they say I've got a story for yeah,

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Speaker 1: not that good.

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Speaker 3: I'll keep my notes away. The book is fantastic. Here

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Speaker 3: one moment. It's this Thursday at all good bookstores. That's

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Speaker 3: when you can get it. Leanne Mourray Artie, thank you

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Speaker 3: so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: No my pleasure. Thank you