Mary Moody

Mary Moody is an Australian author who trained as a journalist at The Australian Women's Weekly and became a long time presenter on Gardening Australia.[1] She has written more than forty gardening books and four memoirs – Au Revoir (2001), Last Tango in Toulouse (2003), The Long Hot Summer (2005) and Sweet Surrender (2010).[2]

She also appeared as a panelist on the chat show The Catch-Up on the Nine Network in 2007.[2]

Moody lives in the rural hamlet of Yetholme, near Bathurst where she holds Open Garden weekends and continues her writing in between leading cultural and botanical treks in the Himalayas and gourmet walking tours in France. She also has a French house in the town of Frayssinet-le-Gelat and her experiences there prompted her to write her first memoir Au Revoir (2001). Moody has written three further memoirs Last Tango in Toulouse (2003), The Long Hot Summer (2005) and Sweet Surrender (2010) and 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.

Private life

Moody was married to film producer David Hannay,[3][4] (23 June 1939 – 31 March 2014).[3] They had three children together (Miriam, Aaron and Ethan) in addition to the son (Antony) that David produced with his first wife (Kathleen).[1]

Works

Cooking

  1. The Long Table: My Love Affair with Food (2008)

Gardening

  1. Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruits (1992)
  2. Cottage Gardens (1993)
  3. Plants for All Seasons (1994)
  4. 100 Plants for Pots and Containers (1994)
  5. 100 Plants for Easy to Maintain Gardens (1995)
  6. 100 Plants for Shady Gardens (1995)
  7. Rock and Alpine Gardens (1995)
  8. The Encyclopedia of Flowers (1999)
  9. Mary Moody's Roses (2006)
  10. Kids in the Garden (2012)

Memoirs

  1. Au Revoir:Running Away from Home at Fifty (2001)
  2. Last Tango in Toulouse (2003)
  3. The Long Hot Summer: A French Heat Wave and a Marriage Meltdown (2005)
  4. Sweet Surrender: Love, Life and the Whole Damn Thing (2010)

Travel

  1. Lunch with Madame Murat: Food of Love in a French Village (2005)

External links

References

  1. 1 2 "Mary Moody Interview:". abc.net.au. 2004-04-28. Retrieved 2014-06-05.
  2. 1 2 "Pan Macmillan Australia: About the Author". panmacmillan.com.au. Retrieved 2014-06-05.
  3. 1 2 "Vale David Hannay", SBS, 2 April 2014. Retrieved 1 June 2014
  4. ↑ "Australian Story - 07/07/2003: Something About Mary". abc.net.au. 2003-07-07. Retrieved 2014-06-05.


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