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Deborah Moggach
Early life and career
Moggach is one of four daughters of writers Charlotte Hough (née Woodyadd) and Richard Hough. Moggach was brought up in Bushey, Hertfordshire and St John's Wood in London, and was educated at Camden School for Girls and Queen's College, London.[citation needed]
She graduated from the University of Bristol in 1971 with a degree in English and trained as a teacher before going to work at Oxford University Press. She lived in Pakistan for two years in the mid-1970s and in the United States.
Novels and other writings
Most of her novels are contemporary, tackling family life,
Her two historical novels are Tulip Fever, set in
She has adapted many of her novels as TV dramas and has also written acclaimed adaptations of other people's work, among them
Honours
In 2005 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Bristol; she is a Fellow of the
Personal life
At Oxford University Press she met the man who became her first husband, Tony Moggach; the couple later divorced. He died in November 2015.
For ten years, her partner was the cartoonist Mel Calman.[3]
After his death in 1994, she lived for seven years with
She lived in the Welsh border town of Presteigne with her husband since 2014, Mark Williams, a journalist, editor and magazine publisher. They also had a maisonette in Kentish Town, north London. She has been single for three years as of 2024. [4]
She has two adult children: Tom, a teacher, and Lottie, a journalist and novelist. In 1985, her mother was sent to prison for helping a terminally ill friend kill herself.[5] Moggach is a patron of Dignity in Dying and campaigns for a change in the law on assisted suicide.[6]
Works
Novels
- You Must Be Sisters (1978)
- Close to Home (1979)
- A Quiet Drink (1980)
- Hot Water Man (1982)
- Porky (1983)
- To Have and to Hold(1986)
- Driving in the Dark (1988)
- Stolen (1990)
- The Stand-In (1991)
- The Ex-Wives (1993)
- Seesaw (1996)
- Close Relations (1997)
- Tulip Fever (1999)
- Final Demand (2001)
- These Foolish Things (2004) (was adapted into the movie The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel)
- Also available as a "movie tie-in" book, with the same title as the movie.
- In the Dark (2007)
- Heartbreak Hotel (2013)
- Something to Hide (2015)
- The Carer(2019)
- The Black Dress (2021)
Short story collections
- Smile and Other Stories (1987)
- Changing Babies and Other Stories (1995)
Screenplays
- Pride & Prejudice(2005)
- Tulip Fever (2017)
Teleplays
- To Have and to Hold (mini-series) (1986)
- Goggle Eyes (adaptation of an Anne Fine novel) (1993) (Won a Writers' Guild Award for Best Adapted TV Serial)
- Seesaw (adaptation of her own novel) (1998)
- Close Relations (adaptation of her own novel) (1999)
- Love in a Cold Climate (adaptation of two Nancy Mitfordnovels) (2001)
- Final Demand (adaptation of her own novel) (2003)
- The Diary of Anne Frank(2009)
- Stolen (adapted from her own novel) (1991)
Stage play
- Double-Take
- The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel based on her novel These Foolish Things
References
- ^ "Deborah Moggach". British Council.
- ^ "New Year's Honours list 2018" (PDF).
- ^ "Comic creator: Mel Calman". Archived from the original on 30 July 2005. Retrieved 11 October 2005.
- ^ Moggach, Deborah (23 February 2024). "What is there to lose? Why I said yes to a blind date at 75". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
- ^ Durrant, Sabine (24 January 2009). "I was grateful to her for dying". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
- ^ "Patrons - Dignity in Dying". Dignity in Dying. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
