In one new volume, an irresistible collection of stories from two previous works, SMILE and CHANGING BABIES, with additional stories, previously unpublished in book form. 'What informs Moggach's excellent stories is not just the exactness of her observation, but the quality of warmth and affection' Sunday Times From swimming on… Read More

'I barked out loud. Not since Freud has sex been more in bed with death. She gets sharper and more mordant with age and about age. This page-turner is like the best wakes, it will make you feel hungry and alive' The Times 'She really is the Nora Ephron of… Read More

'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 An unforgettable novel about age, caring and with a twist you won't see coming... 'A cracking, crackling social… Read More

Something to Hide “Nobody in the world knows our secret… that I’ve ruined Bev’s life, and she’s ruined mine.” Petra’s romantic life has always been a car-crash, and even in her sixties she’s still capable of getting it disastrously wrong. But then she falls in love with Jeremy, an old… Read More

Sometimes a character in an earlier book simply refuses to go away, hanging around long after the party’s over. Buffy, the boozy old actor in “The Ex-Wives”, was one of these. So I wrote him another story, this time set in Wales. I’d fallen in love with a man who… Read More

I loved writing this novel. I stole some of its jokes from my partner at the time, the cartoonist Mel Calman, himself the veteran of several marriages. Its main character, Russell Buffery, isn’t based on Mel but has some of his problems, including a bad back, assorted step-children and a… Read More

This novel was written in a rush of emotion; it’s really my love-letter to Dutch painting and that lost world of serene and dreamy domestic interiors. I hadn’t written a historical novel before, and found the whole process extraordinary. It happened like this: I had bought, at auction, a painting… Read More

As I write this, the First World War is slipping out of memory and into history. Only five British servicemen are still with us – all aged over 106 – and soon these last witnesses will be gone. All that remains will be silence, and books, and our imaginations.  … Read More

This book came about because I’d been thinking a lot about growing older, about what is going to happen to us all. The population is ageing – for the first time the over 50s outnumber the rest of us – and it’s getting older. Where are we all going to… Read More

This novel was prompted by a newspaper story I read, about a young woman who was charged with fraud. She worked at the British Telecom payments processing centre at Durham, and when cheques arrived written to “BT” (rather than the full name) she changed them to “B.Taylor” and her friend… Read More

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. In this, my eleventh novel, I set up a family blessed by good fortune. And then see what happens when their… Read More

This is a thriller. I’d never written one before – introduce a gun and everything moves into different territory. The idea came to me when a film actress friend of mine told me about her stand-in, how the woman knew just when she wanted a Polo mint, how it was… Read More

This novel was also scripted, by me, as a TV drama. In fact I can’t remember which came first, TV or book. Like “To Have and To Hold” it tackles another hard-hitting, controversial subject –in this case, child abduction. This topic hit the news, around this time, and in fact… Read More

This is the novel that, as I said, grew out of a short story. In fact, even more deliciously, I later extracted a character from it (Shirley) and gave her a story of her own (it appears in a later collection, “Changing Babies”).. The storl is narrated by a man,… Read More

This is my fifth novel. It came to me quite suddenly, when I was driving towards London and passed a smallholding – a bungalow surrounded by muddy fields, the sort that have old buses and lorry containers in them.. Maybe there were pigs too, I can’t remember. But it was… Read More

Five years after I returned home from Karachi I wrote a novel that was set there. Maybe it takes that long for experiences to be absorbed and reassembled into fiction. I loosely based one of the characters on myself, an English woman who rebels against the ex-pat community in Pakistan… Read More

This is my first novel. I started writing it when I was living in Karachi, in my mid-twenties. Its story is drawn a great deal from my own early experiences, which were easier to shape, to make sense of, when I was living so far away. Halfway through the novel… Read More