World Book Club - Penelope Lively - Moon Tiger
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Harriett Gilbert talks to acclaimed British writer Penelope Lively about her Booker Prize winning novel Moon Tiger.
Harriett Gilbert talks to acclaimed British writer Penelope Lively about her Booker Prize winning novel Moon Tiger.
A haunting tale of loss, loneliness and secret desires Moon Tiger is the kaleidoscopic story of maverick historian Claudia Hampton.
Telling nurses on her death bed that she will write a "history of the world and in the process my own," she charts her intensely-lived life from her childhood in England after World War I to the war-torn desert plains of Egypt, 30 years later – and beyond.
Egocentric and condescending as well as vulnerable and gutsy, Claudia is a complex heroine for our times who lingers in the mind long after you put the book down.
(Image: Penelope Lively. Copyright: Penguin)
- Broadcast on BBC World Service, 2:05PM Sun, 4 Dec 2011
- Available until 12:00AM Thu, 1 Jan 2099
- First broadcast BBC World Service, 8:05PM Sat, 3 Dec 2011
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- Duration 55 minutes
