Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
I’m writing a history of the world,’ she says. And the hands of the nurse are arrested for a moment; she looks down at this old woman, this old ill woman. ‘Well my goodness,’ the nurse says…”
EDITOR’S CHOICE
An extremely moving tale of love and loss, Penelope Lively‘s Booker Prize-winning novel follows the life of Claudia Hampton, a once beautiful and famous writer, now an old woman, dying in hospital. As the nurses tend to her, Claudia plans her greatest work, ‘a history of the world … and in the process my own’. Moving from Claudia’s childhood and her own tragic and disturbing relationship with her brother, Gordon, to World War II, where Claudia, working as a war correspondent in Cairo, meets the love of her life, Tom, to her career as a historian for the masses, Lively’s novel cleverly melds different voices, with flashbacks and other literary techniques to tell Claudia’s story. It’s a beautiful book.
This Penguin Modern Classics edition features an introduction by Anthony Thwaite.
FORMAT: Paperback
SPECIAL FEATURES: Introduction by Anthony Thwaite
EDITION: Penguin Modern Classics
PUBLICATION DATE: 2006
CONDITION: Very good
CLASSIFICATION: Fiction/Modern classics/Women’s writing/Contemporary
1701/AV
Price: £2.50
