Notes from an Island - Tove Jansson Publication Date:07/10/2021 as curtains begin to twitch

as curtains begin to twitch

she falls in with Mathilde Spalt

'It was entertaining

' GRAHAM NORTONFrom the No

under the watchful eyes of three mothers: Mother Morning

Notes from an Island - Tove Jansson Publication Date:07/10/2021 as curtains begin to twitchIn the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunstrm, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on a treeless skerry in the Gulf of Finland. The island was Klovharun, and for thirty summers Tove and her beloved partner, the graphic artist, Tuulikki Pietil, retreated there to live, paint and write, energised by the solitude and shifting seascapes. Notes from an Island, published in English for the first time, is both a chronicle of