With her last few hours of her life connected to a beeping machine, Claudia gets through various moments of her life again, re-living all those incostant yesterdays, memory after memory.
Annoyed by the come and go of friends and relatives, Claudia goes back to her childhood and to the incestuos and obstreperous relationship with Gordon, her brother.
She sees once again her daughter's childhood, a daughter too different and far away from her mother, feeling once again their detached relationship still ernriched by a different type of affection.
A lifetime love, louder and stronger than anything else in the world, destroyed by what men created throughout the years of the world, something vile and adverse.
A British correspondant in Egypt in the early 40's, Claudia is a strong, obstinate, competitive and charming woman who is dealing with an unfair and merciless war.
A war fought by children, young victims who belong to an uncertain faith without nothing to lose apart from their credo in their homeland.
A Homeland in desperate need for them, that makes them completely forgotten afterwards.
The story of a woman who has laughed, cried, believed, fought, lived. Moon Tiger is the incredible adventure of a fabolous character who lives in all of us. Exciting, full of charm, sorrow and regrets, Penelope Lively shows us from close a war that does not forgive and a real love that never dies.
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