Winner of the Man Booker Prize and Shortlisted for the Golden Man
Booker Prize
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.