Moon Tiger - Softcover

Lively, Penelope

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060972009 ISBN 13: 9780060972004

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1989

Synopsis

Claudia Hampton, writer of best-selling popular history books, lies in a London hospital bed and looks back on her own life, including an unforgettable love affair

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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)

About the Author:

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 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; her autobiographical work, A House Unlocked; The Photograph; Making It Up; Consequences; Family Album, which was shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Novel Award, and How It All Began. 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0060972009
• ISBN 13: 9780060972004
• Binding: Paperback