Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively #literature Nero has learned that power

Nero has learned that power is never shared

A masterpiece of the horror genre

Her lonely childhood games mimicked spycraft and wet-work

foliage and soft musks

It’s harder than it seems – after all

Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively #literature Nero has learned that powerWinner of the Booker Prize, Penelope Lively's Moon Tiger is the tale of a historian confronting her own, personal history, unearthing the passions and pains that have defined her life. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Anthony Thwaite. Claudia Hampton, a beautiful, famous writer, lies dying in hospital. But, as the nurses tend to her with quiet condescension, she is plotting her greatest work: 'a history of the world and