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. D
rawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the twentieth century, this
newly translated selection provides a thrilling showcase of the great Finnish wr
iter's prose, scattered with insights and home truths. It has been selected and
is introduced by Ali Smith.
A Winter Book features 13 stories from Tove Janss
on's first book for adults,The Sculptor's Daughter (1968) plus 7 of her most che
rished later stories (from 1971 to 1996), translated into English and published
here for the first time.
