Seesaw, is a 1996 novel by English author Deborah Moggach

Deborah Moggach

Deborah Moggach is an English writer. She has written sixteen novels to date, including The Ex-Wives, Tulip Fever, and, most recently, These Foolish Things. She has adapted many of her novels as TV dramas and has also written several film scripts, including the BAFTA-nominated screenplay for Pride...

, first published in 1996 by Heinemann and recommended in OUP's Good Fiction Guide.

Plot introduction

Hannah, the seventeen-year-old daughter of Morris and Val Price is kidnapped and a ransom of half a million pounds is demanded. The novel focuses on both the Price family and the kidnappers in the time leading up to the abduction; the relationships between Jon and Eva the two kidnappers, and Hannah; and what happens to all those concerned following her release.

Reception

• 'provocative, enthralling, bang-up-to-the-minute' - Daily Mail
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• 'a gripping and thoroughly intelligent read' - Evening Standard
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Television adaptation

Deborah Moggach also wrote the script for a three-part television adaptation of the novel, first broadcast in March 1998 on ITV

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Cast

• Morris Price - David Suchet
  David Suchet
  David Suchet, CBE, is an English actor, known for his work on British television. He is recognised for his RTS- and BPG award-winning performance as Augustus Melmotte in the 2001 British TV mini-drama The Way We Live Now, alongside Matthew Macfadyen and Paloma Baeza, and a 1991 British Academy...
  
  
• Val Price - Geraldine James
  Geraldine James
  Geraldine James, OBE is an English actress.-Early life and family:James was born in Maidenhead, Berkshire, to a cardiologist father...
  
  
• Hannah Price - Joanna Potts
• Jon - Neil Stuke
  Neil Stuke
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• Eva - Amanda Ooms
  Amanda Ooms
  Amanda Ooms is a Swedish actress and writer. She has acted in both film and TV in Sweden and internationally. She was born in Kalmar, Sweden.-Partial filmography:*1986 – Bröderna Mozart*1988 – Hotel St...