In store now! The Summer Book, by Tove Janneson
World renowned children’s author, trailblazing queer feminist, and - yes - creator of the Moomins, Tove Janneson’s 1972 classic novel The Summer Book celebrates it’s 50th anniversary this year. To coincide, it has been newly reissued with a retrospective afterward from Janneson’s nice, the inspiration for one of the novel’s main characters. A heartwarming intergenerational story of familial love and understanding set on a remote island off the coast of Finland, The Summer Book is a disarmingly simple, heart-rending book about what we can learn from those around us.
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The Summer Book by Tove Janneson
Paperback £9.99
Celebrating 50 years of Tove Jansson's classic, an elderly artist and her six-year-old grand-daughter while away a summer together on a tiny island in the gulf of Finland. As the two learn to adjust to each other's fears, whims and yearnings, a fierce yet understated love emerges - one that encompasses not only the summer inhabitants but the very island itself.
Written in a clear, unsentimental style, full of brusque humour, and wisdom, The Summer Book is a profoundly life-affirming story. Tove Jansson captured much of her own life and spirit in the book, which was her favourite of her adult novels. With a foreword by Esther Freud and an afterword by Sophia Jansson (on whom the child 'Sophia' is based) who returns to the island during the pandemic at the point of becoming a grandmother herself.
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