Deborah Moggach OBE FRSL (née Hough; born 28 June 1948) is an English novelist and screenwriter.

Most of her novels are contemporary, tackling family life, divorce, children and the confusions and disappointments of relationships.

These Foolish Things, her comic novel about elderly people moving to India to obtain affordable care, was made into the successful film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.

[2] At Oxford University Press she met the man who became her first husband, Tony Moggach; the couple later divorced.

She lived in the Welsh border town of Presteigne with her husband since 2014, Mark Williams, a journalist, editor and magazine publisher.