Deborah Moggach has written 20 novels and many screenplays.
Her most recent novel, The Black Dress was published on 22 July 2021 and Fool For Love, a collection of Deborah’s short stories was released in 2022. Her novel The Carer, was published in Summer 2019.
Adaptations of other writers’ work include The Diary of Anne Frank for BBC One, Nancy Mitford’s Love in a Cold Climate and Anne Fine’s Goggle-Eyes, which won the Writers’ Guild Award for Best Adapted TV Serial.
Deborah’s screenplay for the 2005 Working Title movie of Pride and Prejudice, starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen, was nominated for a BAFTA. Deborah has also adapted her novels Seesaw, Close Relations, Stolen and Final Demand for television.
The feature adaptation of Deborah’s novel These Foolish Things became The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, directed by John Madden. The film starred Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson, Bill Nighy and Dev Patel and was an enormous success everywhere. A sequel, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, was released in February 2015 (Blueprint/Fox Searchlight). Simon Friend Entertainment Ltd produced the stage adaptation, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which toured the UK in 2022 and 2023 to rave reviews!
Tulip Fever based on her novel of the same name was produced by Alison Owen for Monumental Films/The Weinstein Company, starring Christoph Waltz, Alicia Vikander, Judi Dench and Tom Hollander, it opened in the US Summer 2017 and the UK in December 2018.
Deborah’s novels Heartbreak Hotel and In The Dark were optioned to Monumental Films and Buccaneer Media, respectively.
Frances Arnold represents Deborah’s dramatic rights and dramatic writing.
Gordon Wise at Curtis Brown represents the publishing rights in Deborah’s novels.