Notes from an Island - Tove Jansson Publication Date:07/10/2021 moved in after Lila's mum

moved in after Lila's mum died

We've been told that pain is purely physical

as curtains begin to twitch

Catherine tells it herself

Notes from an Island - Tove Jansson Publication Date:07/10/2021 moved in after Lila's mumIn the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunstrm, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on a treeless skerry in the Gulf of Finland. The island was Klovharun, and for thirty summers Tove and her beloved partner, the graphic artist, Tuulikki Pietil, retreated there to live, paint and write, energised by the solitude and shifting seascapes. Notes from an Island, published in English for the first time, is both a chronicle of