Moon Tiger

Penelope Lively

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Penguin
02 August 2010

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Booker Prizes

Beautifully packaged reissue of a Booker Prize winning classic

Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying.

But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a 'history of the world . . . and in the process, my own'. And it is her story from a childhood just after the First World War through the Second and beyond. But Claudia's life is entwined with others and she must allow those who knew her, loved her, the chance to speak, to put across their point of view. There is Gordon, brother and adversary; Jasper, her untrustworthy lover and father of Lisa, her cool conventional daughter; and then there is Tom, her one great love, found and lost in wartime Egypt.

Moon Tiger is a haunting story of loss and desire.

By: Penelope Lively
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 182g
ISBN: 9780141044842
ISBN 10: 0141044845
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 02 August 2010
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Penelope Lively has written many prize-winning novels for adults and children. They include: The Road To Lichfield, According To Mark, Moon Tiger (which won the 1987 Booker Prize), Heat Wave, Spiderweb, The Photograph, Making It Up, Consequences and Family Album. Penelope Lively lives in London.

Reviews for Moon Tiger

Leaves its traces in the air long after you've put it away -- Anne Tyler A complex tapestry of great subtlety. Lively writes so well, savouring the words as she goes Daily Telegraph Very clever: evocative, thought-provoking and hangs on the mind long after it is finished Literary Review