Things are revving up for the publication of THE CARER in July. I’m doing a special early-publication gig at the Hay Festival on 2 June, where copies will be available hot off the press.If any of you haven’t been to Hay, I’d urge you to give it a go. It’s in the most sensational countryside and the whole town is buzzing – I’ll always remember seeing Maya Angelou sitting in the pub next to an elderly Welsh farmer….
Deborah Moggach
Both my parents were writers – my father wrote naval history, biographies and children’s books; my mother wrote and illustrated children’s books. I had three sisters, and we grew up to the sound of typewriters tapping in the veranda, where our parents sat side by side, working. I wasn’t a particularly writerly child, however. I preferred playing with cars and animals. I didn’t like girly things and my hero was William Brown.