Deborah Moggach is an English novelist and screenwriter. She graduated from Bristol University, trained as a teacher, and then worked at Oxford University Press. In the mid-seventies, Moggach moved to Pakistan for two years, where she started composing articles for Pakistani newspapers and her first novel, You Must Be Sisters. Her novels The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Tulip Fever were adapted for film in 2011 and 2017 respectively.
Moggach began writing screenplays in the mid-eighties. Her
screenplay for an adaption of Pride & Prejudice starring
Keira Knightley received a BAFTA nomination, and she won a Writers
Guild Award for her adaptation of Anne Fine's Goggle-Eyes.
She has served as Chair of the Management Committee for the Society
of Authors and worked for PEN's Executive Committee, as well as
being a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Moggach
currently lives in the Welsh Marches with her husband.
"Deborah Moggach conveys with chilling skill the process by which a fundamentally bright, decent child becomes infested by corruption." --The Spectator
"At once eerily exuberant and bleak, this is a compassionate, tough book." --The Observer "[An] extraordinarily skilful account of a childhood blasted by what is now acknowledged to be a more widespread offence than was previously recognised: incest." --London Review of Books "Sustain[s] a first-person register so level in its tone of quiet desperation, so careful to avoid blatant shock, as to hold back the tidal wave of revulsion and pity which threatens, but never quite engulfs the reader." --The Times (London)
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