FREE
6:00-7:00 PM

The library’s book clubs are participating in the Winter 2026 Reading Challenge, which highlights titles from the Booker Prize reading list. Join us for another vibrant discussion.

Confined to a hospital bed in London, elderly and unflinching Claudia Hampton drifts through the fragments of her life as memory and consciousness begin to blur. A celebrated writer of popular history, Claudia insists she is embarking on her final—and most ambitious—project: a history of the world. What unfolds instead is a richly layered mosaic of her own life and the lives intertwined with it.

At the heart of Claudia’s story is Tom, the great love she found and lost amid the heat and chaos of wartime Egypt. Fiercely independent and often difficult, Claudia has lived on her own terms, forging intense, sometimes fraught relationships that refuse to settle neatly into the past.

As friends, family, and acquaintances visit her bedside, their voices fracture and reshape the narrative, shifting perspective, pace, and tone. Each encounter reveals another angle of Claudia’s life—and the lasting imprint she has left on others.

Winner of the Booker Prize and a modern literary classic, Moon Tiger is a haunting, provocative, and dazzlingly original: a novel of memory, love, loss, and the many ways a life can be told—making it an ideal selection for book club conversation.

Registration is required.

Copies of the book are available at the circulation desk.

Gunn Memorial Library
5 Wykeham Rd
Washington, CT 06793

2026-03-26

https://www.gunnlibrary.org/calendar/gml-thursday-book-club-moon-tiger-by-penelope-lively/