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You Must Be Sisters (1978)
In respectable middle-class Harrow, three sisters are growing up and going their very different ways. Based on Moggach's rebellious student days in Bristol, this is a tale of sex, drugs and curiously uneasy freedom.
Porky (1983)
At school they called her Porky on account of the pigs her family kept outside the bungalow near Heathrow. But she felt no diffrent - not until she realised she was losing her innocence in a way that none of her friends could possibly imagine. Only a child robbed of her childhood can know too late what it means to be loved too little and loved too much...
To Have and to Hold (1986)
Life has smiled on Viv - chaotic, pretty, charismatic, she has always been one for bold moves. Her sister is less fortunate - sober, predictable, now unable to have children. Then Viv decides to give her sister a brilliant present - a baby - and doesn't think of the repercussions this will bring.
The Stand-in (1991)
When Jules Sampson becomes stand-in for a glamorous film star, she introduces the star to her boyfriend. Soon however, Jules realizes that they have begun an affair. Jules finally uses her acting ability to undermine and eventually wreck not only their lives but also her own.
The Ex-wives (1993)
Actor Russell Buffery is over the hill, and finding his bachelorhood worrisome — until he meets young Celeste. Dazzled by love, Buffery little suspects that Celeste is systematically researching his three ex-wives, and unearthing secrets that will change all of their lives.
Close Relations (1997)
Gordon Hammond, 65 and a builder has a heart attack. Whilst recovering in hospital he falls in love with April, a young black nurse, and leaves Dorothy, his wife of 45 years to set up home with her. Dorothy is released like a loose cannon into the lives of her three daughters and chaos ensues.
Tulip Fever (1999) - Historical
In Tulip Fever, acclaimed author Deborah Moggach has created that rarest of novels--a literary tour de force that is also brilliantly, compulsively readable. Not since Patrick Süskind's Perfume has a work of fiction so vividly evoked a time, a place, and a passion.
In 1630s Amsterdam, tulip fever has seized the populace. Everywhere men are seduced by the fantastic exotic flower. But for wealthy merchant Cornelis Sandvoort, it is his young and beautiful wife, Sophia, who stirs his soul. She is the prize he desires, the woman he hopes will bring him the joy that not even his considerable fortune can buy.
Cornelis yearns for an heir, but so far he and Sophia have failed to produce one. In a bid for immortality, he commissions a portrait of them both by the talented young painter Jan van Loos. But as Van Loos begins to capture Sophia's likeness on canvas, a slow passion begins to burn between the beautiful young wife and the talented artist. As the portrait unfolds, so a slow dance is begun among the household's inhabitants. Ambitions, desires, and dreams breed a grand deception--and as the lies multiply, events move toward a thrilling and tragic climax.
In this richly imagined international bestseller, Deborah Moggach deftly brings to life a world of art, beauty, lust, greed, deception--and tulips.
Deborah Moggach is the author of twelve previous novels. She lives in London.
But as Van Loos begins to capture Sophia's likeness on canvas, a slow passion begins to burn between the beautiful young wife and the talented artist. As the portrait unfolds, so a slow dance is begun among the household's inhabitants. Ambitions, desires, and dreams breed a grand deception--and as the lies multiply, events move toward a thrilling and tragic climax.
In this richly imagined international bestseller, Deborah Moggach deftly brings to life a world of art, beauty, lust, greed, deception--and tulips.
Final Demand (2001)
Natalie is stuck in a dead end job, so when she sees a chance to change her life, she takes it. After all it's only a minor crime, it won't hurt anyone, will it? But other people do get hurt, like Colin the man Natalie marries, because Natalie's actions do have consequences, tragic consequences.
These Foolish Things (2004)
aka The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
'These Foolish Things' is about Dunroamin, a converted guesthouse in Bangladore, where Sonny sets up a home for old people. Travel and set-up are inexpensive, staff willing and plentiful - and the British pensioners can enjoy the hot weather and mango juice with their gin.
In the Dark (2007) - Historical
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. They include blind Alwyne Flyte, communist and cynic, victim of a gas attack in the trenches. When the dreaded telegram arrives at the house, things turn from difficult to desperate for the two young women.
Then along comes the butcher, Neville Turk, big handsome ladies' man, irresistible for his meat, money and brutish confidence, who throws flighty Eithne into a turmoil but has sinister plans of his own. Winnie and the blind lodger, meanwhile, conduct a strange, erotic liaison of their own. And young Ralph, ignored by his mother, looks on, feeling the undercurrents of desire, seeing more than he should. All the strands come together in a shocking denouement that turns a coward into a hero and young Ralph into a man.
They're all in the dark with their dreams, secrets and fantasies, and electric light, new to their world, may be a boon but it reveals both grime and secrets. Life is tough on the home front and they're all working the system in different ways, sometimes comic sometimes tragic, always human.
Heartbreak Hotel (2013)
The irrepressible Russell 'Buffy' Buffery has upped sticks from London and moved to Knockton, Powys, to a B&B inherited from an old flame. With his future spread before him, and a string of failed marriages behind him, Buffy decides it's time for a new challenge.
Meanwhile: Harold's wife has run off with a younger woman leaving him alone with his as yet unwritten novel narrated by Mary Pickford's cat; Amy's weedy boyfriend has turned out to be not so needy after all; and Andy's partner's corset-and-suspender-clad attempts at seduction are having anything but the desired effect.
They're all lost with nowhere to go, and feeling well past their sell-by-dates. So they decide to enrol on 'Courses for Divorces' in a sleepy rural town. Under Buffy's tutelage, they find themselves re-learning all those skills they never thought they'd need again, and a whole lot more besides ...
Something to Hide (2015)
Petra’s romantic life has always been a car crash, and even in her sixties she’s still getting it disastrously wrong. And then she falls in love with Jeremy, an old friend visiting from abroad. There’s just one catch: Jeremy is married to her best friend, Bev.
Meanwhile, on opposite sides of the world, two other women are also struggling with the weight of betrayal: Lorrie, a Texan, is about to embark on the biggest deception of her life, and in China, Li Jing is trying to understand exactly what it is her husband does on his business trips.
It turns out that no matter where you are in the world or how well you think you know the one you love, everyone has secrets.
The Carer (2019)
James is getting on a bit and needs full-time help. So Phoebe and Robert, his middle-aged offspring, employ Mandy, who seems willing to take him off their hands. But as James regales his family with tales of Mandy's virtues, their shopping trips and the shared pleasure of their journeys to garden centres, Phoebe and Robert sense something is amiss.
Then something extraordinary happens which throws everything into new relief, changing all the stories of their childhood - and the father - that they thought they knew so well.
The Black Dress (2021)
Pru's husband has walked out, leaving her alone to contemplate her future. She's missing not so much him, but the life they once had - picnicking on the beach with small children, laughing together, nestling up like spoons in the cutlery drawer as they sleep. Now there's just a dip on one side of the bed and no-one to fill it.
In a daze, Pru goes off to a friend's funeral. Usual old hymns, words of praise and a eulogy but...it doesn't sound like the friend Pru knew. And it isn't. She's gone to the wrong service. Everyone was very welcoming, it was - oddly - a laugh, and more excitement than she's had for ages. So she buys a little black dress in a charity shop and thinks, now I'm all set, why not go to another? I mean, people don't want to make a scene at a funeral, do they? No-one will challenge her - and what harm can it do?
Driving in the Dark (2022)
Meet Desmond Fletcher. At forty-two years old, his marriage has ended and he finds himself all alone in an apartment above an electrical repair shop lent to him by his soon-to-be-ex-wife’s brother. With not much else to do besides his job driving coaches, Desmond has a lot of time to think. Mostly about where his life has gone wrong, the women he has failed, and the child he has never known.
More than a decade ago, a woman Desmond was seeing became pregnant but wanted nothing to do with marrying him—or any man for that matter. Now, with his life in limbo, Desmond becomes obsessed with finding his son. Hijacking a coach, he travels across England, unearthing clues and following in his son’s footsteps—from London to the mountains to the fens. It’s a quest that will take Desmond deep into his own heart, where he just might discover what he’s really looking for . .
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