Deborah Moggach, OBE is an English novelist and an award-winning screenwriter. She has written nineteen novels, including The Ex-Wives, Tulip Fever, These Foolish Things, Heartbreak Hotel and Something to Hide. She lives in London.
Unputdownable, fun and tender with characters that jump off the page. Perfection Moggach is at the height of her powers with this book, which moves from a beautifully observed comedy of middle-class life to an immensely moving celebration of two imperfect marriages - Sunday Times A cracking, crackling social comedy with some brilliant people observations about ageing and a devilish plot twist - The Times Moggach's latest is full of warmth and humour as well as blistering truths about the sorrowful threads that bind families - Daily Mirror This is a world full of charm, warmth and pitch-perfect humour, but it is also a world punctuated by Moggach's blistering truths on the tangled, sorrowful threads of resentment and disappointment that bind families together - Sunday Express, S Mag Infuses the subject with her trademark humour and pathos, reshaping a societal dilemma into a family drama, by turns compelling and surprising - her nuanced characterisations make the subject matter really come alive - Observer