Maisie Mosco was an English writer and novelist. After the war, she edited a Manchester Jewish weekly newspaper, the Jewish Gazette, subsequently writing radio plays for the BBC. One of her stage plays, HAPPY FAMILY, became the basis of a horror film MUMSY, NANNY, SONNY AND GIRLY. She also wrote 16 novels between 1979 and 1998. These include the ALMONDS AND RAISINS series about a Jewish family who around 1900 fled anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire and emigrated to north Manchester in England. These books contained elements of her own family history.