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.
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Year of publication
1996
Original title
Anteckningar från en ö
Page count
103
Original publisher
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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".