BEST-SELLING

author Deborah Moggach is inspired by nude bathing in Hampstead Heath Ladies’ Pond. ‘I’ve been swimming there all my life,’ she says. ‘I’ve climbed over the fence, stripped naked and swum in the moonlight with bats flitting above my head. Swimming there, legs brushed by weeds, is deeply sensual and contemplative. It’s here I think up my stories.’