[1] She attended a middle school with a non-technical focus (Diplommittelschule) and went on to complete an apprenticeship for the book trade.

[10] With her next novel the memorably titled, "Die Putzfraueninsel" / "L'île des femmes de ménage", she found a wider market, with 250,000 copies sold of the German edition alone.

"Bad Hair Days", "The postman died" and "Capuccino" later found their way onto von der Heide's album "Tourist", which appeared in 2000 and reached position 5 in the Swiss hit parade.

She now teamed up the (formerly East German) playwright-author Sibylle Berg and with her agent Anne Wieser to set up a "writing school".

While Moser concentrated on face-to-face teaching, her business partner Sibylle Berg placed her own focus on on-line tuition courses, available to German-language students unwilling or unable to make their way to Aarau.

[13] In 2015, by now divorced from her second husband, she returned again to the United States and bought a house in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she settled down to live alone, devoting her time exclusively to her writing.