Here One Moment

by Liane Moriarty

You wouldn’t say she was invisible, as such. Maybe semitransparent.

“My mother used to say ‘La vita va veloce: this life goes fast, much faster than time.’ ”

We all imagine terrible things. It’s a way of preparing ourselves, or a way of protecting ourselves: if I imagine it, it surely won’t happen.

Truth

When Neve mentions an article she read about deathbed regrets, she is referring to Bronnie Ware’s wonderful memoir, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying. The following books were also helpful to me in my research: The Joy Thief by Penny Moodie, Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, A Taste of Ginger and A Bit More Ginger by Hedley Somerville, Baby Boomers by Helen Townsend, Psychic Blues: Confessions of a Conflicted Medium by Mark Edward, and Palm Reading and Tarot for Beginners by Rebecca Hood. All errors are, of course, sadly mine.

For future reference