Moon Tiger
by Penelope Lively
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The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history, lies alone in a London hospital bed. Memories of her life still glow in her fading consciousness, but she imagines writing a history of the world. Instead, Moon Tiger is her own history, the life of a strong, independent woman, with its often contentious relations with family and friends. At its center — forever frozen in time, the still point of her turning world — is the cruelly truncated affair with Tom, a British tank commander whom Claudia knew as a reporter in Egypt during World War II.
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British, Fiction, Literature, Man Booker Prize Winner, Terminally ill, Women historians, World War, 1939-1945, award:man_booker_prize=1987, Egypt, fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, psychological, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Large type books, Fiction, historical, generalPlaces
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Moon Tiger
September 1997, ISIS Audio Books
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1850896631 9781850896630
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"'I'm writing a history of the world,' she says."
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