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Deborah Moggach OBE FRSL (née Hough; born 28 June 1948) is an English novelist and screenwriter. She has written nineteen novels, including The Ex-Wives, Tulip Fever (made into the film of the same name), These Foolish Things (made into the film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) and Heartbreak Hotel.
I went to Bristol University, worked in publishing for a bit, did some waitressing, taught riding, trained as a teacher, and then got married. In the mid-70s I went to live in Pakistan for two years. After an English upbringing this was incredibly liberating and it was here that I started writing – both articles for Pakistani newspapers and ...
Feb 16, 2013 · It was only when she married and went to live in Pakistan that Moggach started writing, bringing out two novels based on her own experiences in the late 1970s. Back in London she kept an...
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Feb 23, 2024 · In a Blind date over-60s special, novelist Deborah Moggach, 75, meets Mike, 76, a private tutor. Read Deborah Moggach on the pleasures and perils of dating at 75. Fri 23 Feb 2024 07.00 EST.
It was when she turned to historical fiction that Moggach began her late career run of popular success. The novel Tulip Fever (1999) was set in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands, and dealt with an artist who fell in love with a married woman.
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When novelist and screenwriter Deborah Moggach was approached to adapt Anne Frank’s diary for a BBC drama series, she was daunted by the idea.
Deborah Moggach is a British writer, born Deborah Hough on 28 June 1948. She has written fifteen novels to date, including The Ex-Wives, Tulip Fever, and, most recently, These Foolish Things. She has adapted many of her novels as TV dramas and has also written several film scripts, including the BAFTA-nominated screenplay for Pride & Prejudice.
