Mary Moody
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Mary Moody is an Australian author who trained as a journalist at The Australian Women's Weekly and was a long time presenter on Gardening Australia.{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/gnt/future/Transcripts/s1097576.htm|title=Mary Moody Interview|publisher=abc.net.au|date=2004-04-28|accessdate=2014-06-05}} She has written more than forty gardening books and five memoirs – Au Revoir (2001), Last Tango in Toulouse (2003), The Long Hot Summer (2005), Sweet Surrender (2010) and The Accidental Tour Guide (2019).{{cite web|url=https://www.panmacmillan.com.au/author/mary-moody/|title=Pan Macmillan Australia: About the Author|publisher=panmacmillan.com.au|accessdate=5 September 2018 | url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180905183508/https://www.panmacmillan.com.au/author/mary-moody/ | archive-date=5 September 2018}}
She also appeared as a panelist on the chat show The Catch-Up on the Nine Network in 2007.
Moody lived in the rural hamlet of Yetholme, near Bathurst from 2000 to 2016. Following the death of her husband David she moved to an extended family home in Blackheath where she holds Open Garden weekends and continues her writing. Moody also leads cultural, botanical and gourmet walking tours in the Himalayas, Mongolia, Morocco and France. {{cite web|url=https://www.traveller.com.au/exit-interview-mary-moody-h1h4yf|title=Traveller: My travel life: Mary Moody, author, gardener and tour guide | publisher=www.traveller.com.au|accessdate=1 October 2019}}
Moody has a French house in the town of Frayssinet-le-Gelat and it was her experiences there that prompted her to write her first memoir Au Revoir (2001). Moody has written four further memoirs Last Tango in Toulouse (2003), The Long Hot Summer (2005), Sweet Surrender (2010) and The Accidental Tour Guide (2019) which discuss her life, family and travels as well as Lunch with Madame Murat (2005) which she turned into a documentary film by the same name for SBS television. {{cite web|url=https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/the-screen-guide/t/lunch-with-madame-murat-2007/25068/|title=Screen Australia: Lunch with Madame Murat | publisher=www.screenaustralia.gov.au|accessdate=1 October 2019}}
Personal life
Moody was married to film producer David Hannay,{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/austory/transcripts/s896186.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030729233421/http://www.abc.net.au/austory/transcripts/s896186.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 July 2003|title=Australian Story - 07/07/2003: Something About Mary|publisher=abc.net.au|date=2003-07-07|accessdate=2014-06-05}} (23 June 1939 – 31 March 2014).[http://www.sbs.com.au/movies/article/2014/04/02/vale-david-hannay "Vale David Hannay"], SBS, 2 April 2014. Retrieved 1 June 2014 They had three children together (Miriam, Aaron and Ethan) in addition to the son (Antony) that David produced with his first wife (Kathleen). Mary has eleven grandchildren - eight boys and three girls.
Works
=Cooking=
- The Long Table: My Love Affair with Food (2008)
=Gardening=
- Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruits (1992)
- Cottage Gardens (1993)
- Plants for All Seasons (1994)
- 100 Plants for Pots and Containers (1994)
- 100 Plants for Easy to Maintain Gardens (1995)
- 100 Plants for Shady Gardens (1995)
- What Rose is That? (1995)
- Rock and Alpine Gardens (1995)
- The Encyclopedia of Flowers (1999)
- The Gardener's Companion (2001)
- Mary Moody's Roses (2006)
- Kids in the Garden (2012)
=Memoirs=
- Au Revoir:Running Away from Home at Fifty (2001)
- Last Tango in Toulouse (2003)
- The Long Hot Summer: A French Heat Wave and a Marriage Meltdown (2005)
- Sweet Surrender: Love, Life and the Whole Damn Thing (2010)
- The Accidental Tour Guide (2019)
=Travel=
- Lunch with Madame Murat: Food of Love in a French Village (2005)
References
External links
- {{cite web|url=http://www.marymoody.com.au/|title=About Mary Moody, her books, tours, films, the house in France and the farm in Australia|publisher=marymoody.com.au|accessdate=2014-06-05}}
- {{cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/07/12/1057979650359.html|title=A tangled tale of tango in Toulouse|publisher=Sydney Morning Herald : smh.com.au|accessdate=2014-06-05}}
- {{cite web|url=http://www.writerscentre.com.au/community/podcasts/mary-moody-memoir-author/|title=Mary Moody: Memoir author|publisher=Australian Writers Center : writerscentre.com.au|accessdate=2019-10-10}}
- {{cite web|url=http://thehoopla.com.au/40-years-sex-counting/|title=40 Years of Sex and Counting|publisher=The Hoopla : thehoopla.com.au|accessdate=2014-06-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131015054459/http://thehoopla.com.au/40-years-sex-counting/|archive-date=15 October 2013|url-status=dead}}
- {{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/gnt/future/Transcripts/s1097576.htm |title=Mary Moody Interview|publisher=ABC : abc.net.au|accessdate=2014-06-05}}
- {{cite web|url=http://www.goodreads.com/author/list/292801.Mary_Moody|title=Books by Mary Moody (Author of A Killing in Antiques)|publisher=goodreads.com|accessdate=2014-06-28}}
- {{cite web|url=https://www.traveller.com.au/exit-interview-mary-moody-h1h4yf|title=My travel life: Mary Moody, author, gardener and tour guide|publisher=Traveller : traveller.com.au|accessdate=2019-10-10}}
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klHnaOa73hM The Catch-Up discuss infidelity]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS7ycKHxEwo The Catch-Up with special guest Julia Gillard]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2wD1JNfPBY Mary Moody Reads at Once Upon a Deadline]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcJ0DCXkLYs Mary Moody and Jan Green Yoga Trek in Darjeeling]
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