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.