Deborah Moggach is the prize-winning author of numerous screenplays including Stolen, Goggle-Eyes, See-Saw and Close Relations, and Final Demand (starring Tamsin Outhwaite) will be shown on BBC 1 this Easter. Her many novels include the bestselling Tulip Fever and Porky. She is Chairman of the Society of Authors and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in North London.
Deborah Moggach is a delight to read-her characters are wonderfully alive, and their stories grip us unequivocally-the novel is enjoyable from first to last Daily Telegraph It is characterisation at which Moggach excels. Her gift is to perceive and describe our confusions about life-and to write with feeling about the continual quest for love and happiness that is part of the human condition Sunday Times A neat plot... [with] dark flashes of hubris and nemesis Guardian Moggach's subject is the rickety edifice we call the family, which she comes at armed with both a wrecking ball and an insatiable curiosity to note the particular way it collapses Independent She is a terrific plotter Guardian