Moggach, Deborah. “Autobiography”. Deborah Moggach: About Deborah.
Deborah Moggach
Standard Name: Moggach, Deborah
Birth Name: Deborah Hough
Married Name: Deborah Moggach
I like setting up a seemingly happy family and then planting a stick of dynamite in the corner of the room. Light the touch paper and watch what happens.) Yet often some kind of restoration, perhaps in radically altered form, provides a kind of happy resolution. She often writes about the moral and emotional implications of some issue in the news, like child abuse or surrogate motherhood: the loss of children, interpreted in various different ways, is one of her favourite subjects. Yet nothing could be less like a simple case study than the resulting novels.
's literary career dates from the 1970s. By 2004 she had produced fifteen novels, a number of television screenplays, and two volumes of short stories, besides her journalistic output (reviews, essays, interviews). Her novels typically concern themselves with ordinary families whose lives fissure and fracture under pressure from some unexpected event. (She says: Timeline
Texts
Moggach, Deborah. A Quiet Drink. Collins, 1980.
Moggach, Deborah. “Autobiography”. Deborah Moggach: About Deborah.
Moggach, Deborah. Changing Babies and Other Stories. Heinemann, 1995.
Moggach, Deborah. Close Relations. Heinemann, 1997.
Moggach, Deborah. Close Relations. Arrow, 1998.
Moggach, Deborah. Close to Home. Collins, 1979.
Moggach, Deborah. Driving in the Dark. Hamilton, 1988.
Moggach, Deborah. Final Demand. Heinemann, 2001.
Moggach, Deborah. “First Draft: Point of View”. Mslexia, Vol.
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, pp. 26-7. Moggach, Deborah. Heartbreak Hotel. Vintage Chatto and Windus, 2012.
Moggach, Deborah. Hot Water Man. J. Cape, 1982.
Moggach, Deborah. In the Dark. Vintage Chatto and Windus, 2007.
Moggach, Deborah. “Introduction”. Passions & Reflections, edited by Judy Cooke, Limetree, 1991, p. 1: ix - xii.
Moggach, Deborah. Porky. J. Cape, 1983.
Moggach, Deborah. Seesaw. Heinemann, 1996.
Moggach, Deborah. Smile and Other Stories. Viking, 1987.
Moggach, Deborah. Something to Hide. Chatto and Windus, 2015.
Moggach, Deborah. “Something to Hide: exclusive new fiction by Deborah Moggach”. The Telegraph.
Moggach, Deborah. Stolen. Heinemann, 1990.
Moggach, Deborah. The Ex-Wives. Heinemann, 1993.
Moggach, Deborah. The Stand-In. Heinemann, 1991.
Moggach, Deborah. These Foolish Things. Chatto and Windus, 2004.
Moggach, Deborah. To Have and to Hold. Penguin, 1986.
Moggach, Deborah. To Have and to Hold. Viking, 1986.
Moggach, Deborah. Tulip Fever. Heinemann, 1999.