The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

The Summer Book by Tove JanssonThe Summer Book 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

A young veterinarian

of Barton & Sons

Stan talks about our country

His squawk is not the loudest or the quietest

and a parent's rushing them

this enchanting collection also provides mindful and practical ideas for reconnecting with nature and the blooms around us

through to activism and reconciliation

'I feel inadequate to describe a book like this with the right superlatives - I don't want to reduce the book down to one thing in doing so

Raeve finds herself captured by the Guild of Nobles - a group of powerful fae

Its time to change tactics

bitter and brutal but dazzling in its ferocity

to the AIDS crisis during the 1980s