Moon Tiger (Re-Issue)

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Penelope Lively’s Booker Prize winning classic, Moon Tiger is a haunting story of loss and 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’. 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.

‘Leaves its traces in the air long after you’ve put it away’ Anne Tyler

‘Very clever: evocative, thought-provoking and hangs on the mind long after it is finished’ Literary ReviewLeaves 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

Lively’s ability to bring her character and the world she inhabits into full technicolour is beautiful. This is a unique book about a fascinating unpredictable woman way ahead of her time and yet absolutely of her time—Lemn Sissay

One of Britain’s most celebrated novelists. Moon Tiger‘s multiple, shifting viewpoints weaves an eloquent disquisition on memory, identity, age, love and regret—Financial Times

Atmospheric, inventive. Few books I’ve read recently have given me so much pleasure—Sam Jordison, GuardianPenelope Lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and children. She has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: once in 1977 for her first novel, The Road to Lichfield, and again in 1984 for According to Mark. She later won the 1987 Booker Prize for her highly acclaimed novel Moon Tiger. She is a popular writer for children and has won both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award. She was appointed CBE in the 2001 New Year’s Honours List, and DBE in 2012. Penelope Lively lives in London.GB

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