Moon Tiger
$29.54
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2016
Summary
Penelope Lively’s Booker Prize winning classic, published 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 chanc…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241973684 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241973686 |
| Author: | Penelope Lively |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2016 |
| Weight: | 136g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 112mm x 181mm |
| Series: | Penguin Essentials |
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Critics Review
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 *
Penelope Lively
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:
- 1977: The Road to Lichfield (her first novel)
- 1984: According to Mark
She won the Booker Prize in 1987 for Moon Tiger.
Her other books include:
- Going Back
- Judgement Day
- Next to Nature, Art
- Perfect Happiness
- Passing On
- City of the Mind
- Cleopatra’s Sister
- Heat Wave
- Beyond the Blue Mountains (a collection of short stories)
- Oleander, Jacaranda (a memoir of her childhood days in Egypt)
- Spiderweb
- A House Unlocked (her autobiographical work)
- The Photograph
- Making It Up
- Consequences
- Family Album (shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Novel Award)
- How It All Began
She is a popular writer for children and has won both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award.
Penelope Lively was appointed CBE in the 2001 New Year’s Honours List and DBE in 2012.
She lives in London.
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