![]() ![]() She is, as one critic remarked, "the kind of writer that Barbara Pym might have been if she had married and had children."Ĭlaudia Hampton, journalist, popular historian and woman of independent mind, is dying of cancer. ![]() She builds her story without pyrotechnics but gives it a deceptively strong hold on life. Lively is the exact opposite of a literary showman. Moon Tiger is such a profoundly modest novel that it lends itself neither to superlatives nor to snappy summaries. Beating those long odds, last October Lively carried the day. Pitted against such rivals as Iris Murdoch, Brian Moore and Chinua Achebe, Lively was a rank outsider on the short list (given 7 to 1 odds by Londoners making book on the Booker). PENELOPE LIVELY is best known for her children's books (The Children of Norham Gardens, A Stitch in Time and many others) but last year her slim, very much adult novel Moon Tiger carried off Britain's literary Oscar, the Booker Prize. ![]()
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