A Winter Book

Following the widely acclaimed and bestselling The Summer Book, here is a Winter Book collection of some of Tove Jansson's best-loved and most famous stories. Drawn from youth and older age and spanning most of the twentieth century, this newly translated selection provides a thrilling showcase of the great Finnish writer´s prose, scattered with insights and home truths. It was selected and introduced by Ali Smith and there are afterwards by Philip Pullman, Esther Freud and Frank Cottrell Boyce.