My name is Moira Buffini and I am a dramatist, screenwriter, showrunner and most recently, novelist. My debut novel is called Songlight and is published by Faber. I was born in England to Irish parents and wrote my first play aged fourteen. Since then I have written many plays, four of them for the UK's National Theatre. I have also written plays for the Almeida and Kiln, and two of my plays, Dinner and Handbagged, have transferred to London's West End. As a screenwriter, I have written four feature films (Jane Eyre, Tamara Drewe, Byzantium and The Dig). I also co-created and was showrunner on three seasons of Hulu's Harlots.
