The Summer Book, Tove Jansson’s novel about love, family and nature, will make you nostalgic for your own childhood
The Summer Book, Tove Jansson’s novel about love, family and nature, will make you nostalgic for your own childhood: A short novel of rare beauty, Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book (1972) tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl spending the summer with her grandmother on a remote island in the Gulf of Finland. Jansson is …