Notes from an Island - Tove Jansson Publication Date:07/10/2021 Catherine tells it herself

Catherine tells it herself

as curtains begin to twitch

We've been told that pain is purely physical

moved in after Lila's mum died

property rights and intervention since 1945 and into the twenty-first century

Notes from an Island - Tove Jansson Publication Date:07/10/2021 Catherine tells it herselfIn 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