Moon Tiger

From her London hospital bed, Claudia Hampton, celebrated historian, journalist, and war correspondent, decides to write a history of the world. What emerges, however, is the secret history of her own life. An untamed, contradictory, voracious life. A mosaic of memory that unfolds in tesserae. From a childhood of rebellion and learning alongside a brilliant and competitive brother to the scorching days in the Egyptian desert during the war, from a love as dazzling as it was impossible to a motherhood borne with detachment and pride. In this masterful novel, Penelope Lively—winner of the 1987 Booker Prize and a finalist for the Golden Man Booker—transforms Claudia Hampton into one of the great British literary heroines of the 20th century. An indomitable, fascinating woman who refuses to be agreeable or offer the comfort of a linear narrative. Moon Tiger is a fierce and delicate meditation on love, loss, time, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive.