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Moon Tiger

Penelope Lively

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Lying on her deathbed, the elderly and defiant historian Claudia Hampton decides to write a 'history of the world' that inevitably becomes the mosaic of her own life. The non-linear narrative, which won the 1987 Booker Prize, explores her life from a post-World War I childhood through the Second World War and beyond, as her memories crowd in, often told from multiple viewpoints. At the center of her life story is her one great love, Tom Southern, a British tank commander she met and lost in wartime Egypt, alongside her complex relationships with her brother Gordon and her lover Jasper.