Moon Tiger Summary
Penelope Lively

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Moon Tiger Summary

Moon Tiger is the story of Claudia Hampton, an intelligent and deeply flawed woman whose life is chronicled from various points-of-view that shift freely between past and present. The book opens with Claudia, elderly and irascible, making plans to write a history of the world from her room in a nursing home. Having had a long career as a writer of popular histories, Claudia is well equipped for the task, and...

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Penelope Lively Biographies (3)

Penelope (Margaret) Lively

3,471 words, approx. 12 pages

Penelope Lively has been a prolific writer since the appearance of her first book in 1970. Some of her books for children have already been called classics, and her more recent novels for adults have ... Read more

Penelope (Margaret) Lively

6,554 words, approx. 22 pages

Penelope Lively has achieved popular success and high critical acclaim for her books for children written in the 1970s and for her later novels and short stories for adults. She is regarded today as o... Read more

Penelope (Margaret) Lively

9,723 words, approx. 33 pages

A prolific novelist and short-story writer, Penelope Lively thus far has published more than forty books for children and adults in a writing career spanning a little less than thirty years. In no way... Read more

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