A review by talitha
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively

emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

The collective past, curiously, provides these. It is public property, but it is also deeply private. We all look differently at it. 

And when you and I talk about historywe don't mean what actually happened, do we? The cosmic chaos of everywhere, all time? We mean the tidying up of this into books, the concentration of the benign historical eye upon years and places and persons. 

You are public property - the received past. But you are also private; my view of you is my own, your relevance to me is personal.