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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