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The summer book

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The Summer Books is a fresh, vivid and magical novel about seemingly endless summers of discovery.

An elderly artist and her six year old granddaughter while away the summer together, on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland, their solitude disturbed only by migrating birds, sudden storms and an occasional passing boat.

Gradually, the two learn to adjust to each other's fears, foibles and yearnings for independence, and a fierce yet understated love emerges - one that engulfs not only the summer inhabitants, but the very island itself.

Tove Jansson writes with a special toughness, and with a quiet, dry sense of humour, about a small girl and her grandmother, who as kindred spirits share the long days together.

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0954221710 / 9780954221713
Paperback / softback
29/05/2003
United Kingdom
English
Foreign
172 p. : ill.
20 cm
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Reprint. This translation originally published: New York: Pantheon; London: Hutchinson, 1975.