A Winter Book

Following the widely acclaimed and bestselling The Summer Book, here is A Winter Book - a collection of some of Tove Jansson''s best-loved and most famous stories, taking its cue from over five different collections of her work.

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 has been selected and is introduced by Ali Smith.

Tove Jansson is known across the world primarily as the creator of the marvellous Moomin books, and it is refreshing to see the other side of her genius presented in her adult fiction.

A Winter Book features 13 stories from Tove Jansson''s first book for adults, The Sculptor''s Daughter (1968) plus seven of her most cherished later stories (from 1971 to 1996), translated into English and published in this volume for the first time.