![]() And me - and my next sister down, Jaclyn - we used to love to write - to him, it was just natural to think: 'Well, how can we make a job of this?'"Īnd this, I think, might be the magic of Moriarty. ![]() So the fact that he got to fly planes for a living - he thought it was the most wonderful thing in the world. "When he was a child, he dreamed of flying, so he jumped off the roof with an umbrella and did all those sorts of things to try to fly. "He had an aerial surveying and mapping company," says his eldest child. And then, she says, well, okay - because she could make something up but, "I know you reporters like to be accurate." So we talk about Bernard Moriarty, the man who places value on anything that gives you pleasure and who subscribes fully to the idea that people should be paid for doing the things they love. "īut then, she says, her dad does love to get a mention. My dad's very sick, so I'm sitting next to a vending machine downstairs. "I'm actually at the hospital, in a waiting room. I've just asked the bestselling Sydney-based author to set the scene. ![]() It's three Tuesday mornings ago and the world is still relatively normal. "As long as this is off the record," says Liane Moriarty. An innocuous question - the weather, what the subject had for breakfast - anything to make sure the tape is working. ![]() ![]() It's standard operating procedure to start a phone interview with an equipment check. ![]()
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