Penelope Lively`s Booker Prize winning classic, Moon Tiger is a haunting story of loss & desire, published here as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 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`. & 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. ” 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 & hangs on the mind long after it is finished.” (Literary Review).