11 Facts About Deborah Moggach

Deborah Moggach has written nineteen novels, including The Ex-Wives, Tulip Fever, These Foolish Things and Heartbreak Hotel.

Deborah 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.

Deborah Moggach graduated from the University of Bristol in 1971 with a degree in English, and then trained as a teacher before going to work at Oxford University Press.

Deborah Moggach lived in Pakistan for two years in the mid-1970s and in the United States.

Deborah Moggach has an ear for comedy but has written a dark thriller set in America, The Stand-In ; a bleak story of incest set near London Heathrow Airport, Porky ; and a novel pitting Muslim versus English family values, Stolen.

Deborah Moggach has adapted many of her novels as TV dramas and has written acclaimed adaptations of other people's work, among them Nancy Mitford's Love in a Cold Climate, for instance, and The Diary of Anne Frank.

Deborah Moggach was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2018 New Year Honours for services to literature.

Deborah Moggach lived in the Welsh border town of Presteigne with her husband since 2014, Mark Williams, a journalist, editor and magazine publisher.

Deborah Moggach has been single for three years as of 2024.

Deborah Moggach has two adult children: Tom, a teacher, and Lottie, a journalist and novelist.

Deborah Moggach is a patron of Dignity in Dying and campaigns for a change in the law on assisted suicide.