Title: Moon tiger
First published: 1987
Description: 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.
Subjects: 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, general
Places: Egypt
Time periods: 20th century