Notes from an Island

These observations, taken from the island of Klovharun and illustrated by Tuulikki Pietilä, cover all aspects of Tove’s and Tuulikki’s time in the Finnish archipelago – including their eventual decision to stop spending summers on the island.

These observations, taken from the island of Klovharun and illustrated by Tuulikki Pietilä, cover all aspects of Tove’s and Tuulikki’s time in the Finnish archipelago – including their eventual decision to stop spending summers on the island.

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  • Year of publication

    1996

  • Original title

    Anteckningar från en ö

  • Page count

    103

  • Original publisher

    -

Reviews

  • Herold Magazine

    "The book is above all a hymn to the unstoppable forces of the sea and the weather that acknowledges our precarious grip on the planet we claim to own"

  • Susie Mesure - I News UK

    "There are few people more masterful at making the mundane magical than Tove Jansson" "The book is part memoir, part inspiration for living: in isolation, through choice, with only seabirds, a per cat and her partner for company. And, of course, the island itself, a character in its own right".

  • Nancy Campbell - TLS

    About Tuulikki Pietilä's illustrations: "These wry and winsome autobiographical sketches demonstrate the couple's virtuosity in the art of living...as evocative as a long-lost coastline glimpsed through mist".

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