For other people named Mary Moody, see Mary Moody (disambiguation).
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.[1] 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).[2][3]
She also appeared as a panelist on the chat show The Catch-Up on the Nine Network in 2007.[2]
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. [4]
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. [5]
^"Mary Moody Interview". abc.net.au. 28 April 2004. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
^ ab"Pan Macmillan Australia: About the Author". panmacmillan.com.au. Archived from the original on 5 September 2018. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
^"Simon & Schuster: Books by Mary Moody". www.simonandschuster.com.au. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
^"Traveller: My travel life: Mary Moody, author, gardener and tour guide". www.traveller.com.au. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
^"Screen Australia: Lunch with Madame Murat". www.screenaustralia.gov.au. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
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