Deborah Moggach’s new novel is a tale of profiteering and pre-marital sex in a down at heel boarding house set on the home front. But her home front is Southwark in 1918. So what drew her to the stories of those who were left behind during the First World War? Jenni talks to Deborah Moggach about hardship and liberation in a war that changed everything.
In the Dark by Deborah Moggach is published by Chatto and Windus.