It’s the story of a six year old girl, her father and grandmother on their summer island. I was enraptured by Moominland as a child and transported by this book. Philip Pullman on the book cover of The Summer Book declares “Tove Jansson was a genius.” I agree. Jansson was an interesting woman, fiercely intelligent and independent – recognised as a literary icon with her strange and enchanting characters and gentle storytelling. Tove Jansson is both the illustrator and the writer. They’re classic stories of a family and their friends, all different, all needing love in different ways. If you didn’t grow up with Moomintroll, Snufkin, Little My, the Hattifatteners and that lot, nothing wrong with growing up a bit more now. Gifts tell you a lot about the people who give them. Her husband sent me an Atlas of Remote Islands and put a gnome in the garden (the gnome disappeared, but there’s been no postcard). Last time she came to stay she brought Moomin coffee mugs.
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