Deborah Moggach (born 28 June 1948) is an English novelist and screenwriter. She has written nineteen novels, including; The Ex-Wives, Tulip Fever (made into the film of the same name), These Foolish Things and Heartbreak Hotel. She graduated from the University of Bristol in 1971 with a degree in English and trained as a teacher before going to work at the Oxford University Press. She lived in Pakistan for two years in the mid-1970s and in the United States Most of her novels are contemporary, tackling family life, divorce, children and the confusions and disappointments of relationships. She has an ear for comedy but has also written a dark thriller set in America, The Stand-In; a bleak story of incest set near London Heathrow Airport, Porky; and a novel pitting Muslim versus English family values, Stolen. Her novel, Something To Hide (2015), is set in Texas, London, Beijing, and West Africa. Less