Biography
Moggach is one of four daughters of writers, Charlotte and Richard Hough. She has two adult children: Tom, a teacher, and Lottie, a journalist. Moggach was brought up in Hertfordshire and London, and was educated at Camden School for Girls and Queen's College, London. She has lived in Pakistan and the United States. She graduated from the University of Bristol in 1971 with a degree in English and trained as a teacher before going to work at Oxford University Press, where she met her husband Tony, from whom she is now divorced.
For ten years, her partner was the cartoonist Mel Calman. After his death in 1994, she lived for seven years with Hungarian painter Csaba Pasztor. She currently lives in a house overlooking Hampstead Heath in North London.
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