Mary Moody

[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).

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.

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.

[6] They had three children together (Miriam, Aaron and Ethan) in addition to the son (Antony) that David produced with his first wife (Kathleen).