Moon Tiger
  • Published: 5 December 2024
  • ISBN: 9781405980074
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224
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Moon Tiger

Formats & editions
Paperback
18 Feb 2025
Paperback
1 Feb 2016
Paperback
24 May 2006
EBook
5 Dec 2024
EBook
27 Apr 2006
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A stylish reissue of the Booker Prize-winning, Golden Booker Prize-shortlisted classic: now with a new introduction by Elif Shafak

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.

The masterpiece of one of the century's finest novelists, Moon Tiger is a haunting, evocative and dazzlingly original story of loss and desire - now with a new introduction by Elif Shafak.
  • Published: 5 December 2024
  • ISBN: 9781405980074
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224
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About the author

Penelope Lively

Penelope Lively grew up in Egypt but settled in England after the war and took a degree in history at St Anne's College, Oxford. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and a member of PEN and the Society of Authors. She was married to the late Professor Jack Lively, has a daughter, a son and four grandchildren, and lives in Oxfordshire and London.Penelope 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. Her novels include Passing On, shortlisted for the 1989 Sunday Express Book of the Year Award, City of the Mind, Cleopatra's Sister and Heat Wave. Many of her books, including Going Back, which first appeared as a children's book, and Oleander, Jacaranda, an autobiographical memoir of her childhood days in Egypt, are published in Penguin.Penelope Lively has also written radio and television scripts and has acted as presenter for a BBC Radio 4 programme on children's literature. She is a popular writer for children and has won both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award.

Also by Penelope Lively

Metamorphosis
Life in the Garden
The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories
The House in Norham Gardens
Abroad
Ammonites and Leaping Fish
Heat Wave
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Praise for Moon Tiger

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 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, Guardian

I love it when you fall in love with a book from the opening line… [Claudia] is a thoroughly unlikeable character… she’s selfish, she’s arrogant, she’s ambitious, she’s all of the things women still aren’t allowed to be… the fact that Lively gets us to fall in love with her is a huge accomplishment… I was with her the whole way

Sara Collins, on BBC Radio 4 Open Book

[Moon Tiger] left me with a sense of living through history… that things are happening in the world and we can’t shut them out… you can’t escape these great forces of war and people being forced to become refugees… forces outside your own control

Oliver Burkeman, on BBC Radio 4 Open Book