Claudia Hampton is 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`. & it is her story from a childhood just after the First World War through the Second & beyond. But Claudia`s life is entwined with others & she must allow those who knew her, loved her, the chance to speak, to put across their point of view. There is Gordon, brother & adversary; Jasper, her untrustworthy lover & father of Lisa, her cool conventional daughter; &, then there is Tom, her one great love, found & lost in wartime Egypt. Moon Tiger is a haunting story of loss & desire.