Slowly little Sophia drifts off to sleep again. She tugs her Grandmother’s plait and Grandmother wakes up and reassures her that all is well.

Little Sophia wakes in the middle of the night to see the fire in the stove reflected several times in the windows. The shortest is Moonlight at just two pages. the average length is just under seven pages. It’s divided into 22 ‘chapters’ or sections i.e. But her big breakthrough came with The Summer Book, published in 1972, which has come to be regarded as a classic across Scandinavia. The semi-autobiographical Sculptor’s Daughter: A Childhood Memoir came out in 1968 (her father and mother were both artists). It’s around this time that she made the transition to writing fiction for adults. The last Moomin book is the sad and melancholy Moominvalley in November, published in 1970. Tove Jansson (1914-2001) is famous for writing the Moomin comic strips, picture books and stories which are still phenomenally popular 70 years after the first book was published (1945), and have been turned into cartoons, animations, TV series, movies, plays and even an opera, as well as a world of merchandise. It was just the same long summer, always, and everything lived and grew at its own pace. They all moved about the island doing their own chores, which were so natural and obvious that no one mentioned them, neither for praise nor sympathy.

When the southwest wind was blowing, the days seemed to follow one another without any kind of change or occurrence day and night, there was the same even, peaceful rush of wind.

The summer book tove