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The Worldwide Classic about a tiny island and larger love.

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.

Includes a 15pp epilogue by Tove's niece Sophia Jansson - the inspiration for 'Sophia' - on a personal and moving return to the island.

Book details

Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: The Summer Book
• Author: Tove Jansson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9780954221713
• ISBN: 0954221710
• ID: 04178560
• Publisher: Sort of Books
• Weight: 206 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 133 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. May 2003

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