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CLOSE RELATIONS is one of the funniest and truest novels about modern family life you'll ever read.

From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. By the author of Tulip Fever, a historical drama bursting with secrets and passions. 1916: Pretty young Eithne Clay runs a shabby-genteel South London boarding house while her husband is off at the War. There's Ralph, her fourteen-year old son, and Winnie the young maid, a homely, goodhearted country girl, and the lodgers, of course, a curious but necessary burden. CLOSE RELATIONS is one of the funniest and truest novels about modern family life you'll ever read.

Deborah Moggach lives in Hampstead, North London, with a Hungarian painter and her two, almost grown-up children. She has written eleven other novels including seesaw, The Ex-Wives, The Stand-In and Close Relations, and two volumes of short stories. Her TV screenplays include Stolen, Seesaw and the prize-winning Google Eyes. She has also developed Close Relations as an acclaimed five-part BBC serial.

Deborah Moggach is a British writer, born Deborah Hough on 28 June 1948.

At 23 Brinsley Street, Kate Cooper struggles with her two babies, the. 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. She has also written two collections of short Deborah Moggach is a British writer, born Deborah Hough on 28 June 1948.

Author Deborah Moggach. A wonderfully entertaining and astute collection of short stories about life today. Now a major motion picture starring Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson, Billy Nighy, and Dev Patel

Author Deborah Moggach. 306. Published: 2019. Deborah Moggach's stories take as their subject modern marriage and the modern family. Now a major motion picture starring Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson, Billy Nighy, and Dev Patel. When Ravi Kapoor, an overworked London doctor, reaches the breaking point with his difficult father-in-law, he asks his wife: Can’t we just send him away somewhere? Somewhere far, far away.

Deborah Moggach OBE FRSL (née Hough; born 28 June 1948) is an English novelist and screenwriter. She has written eighteen 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. Moggach is one of four daughters of writers Charlotte Hough (née Woodyadd) and Richard Hough.

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CLOSE RELATIONS is one of the funniest and truest novels about modern family life you'll ever read.

A wonderfully entertaining and astute collection of short stories about life today.

It's typical of Deborah Moggach that the novel she calls a "love letter" to Mel Calman, her partner of. .He'd been around the block a few times," Moggach says of Calman.

It's typical of Deborah Moggach that the novel she calls a "love letter" to Mel Calman, her partner of many years who died in 1994, is called The Ex-Wives. Its hero Buffy, aka retired actor Russell Buffery, is a warm-hearted rogue with a labyrinthine private life featuring five‑children and a stepdaughter by four different women. He was a great chatter, very close to his mother and very at ease with women. We could talk and talk, and our 10-year relationship was one long conversation that was.