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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Sort Of Books (2 Nov 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0954899520
  • ISBN-13: 978-0954899523
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 6,868 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Daily Telegraph, 11 November, 2006

Lightweight, yet cool and clear as a Nordic sea.


Josh Lacey, The Guardian, 18 November, 2006

The book ends perfectly with "Taking leave", a short, melancholy
and very beautiful picture of old age.
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22 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A book for all seasons..., 22 Jan 2007
Tove Jansson's "A Winter Book" cherry-picks short stories from her autobiographical "A Sculptor's Daughter" and adds later gems to deliver an unforgettable collection of work. Her cool, clear gaze takes in vivid moments from childhood (check "The Stone" and the stunning image left by "The Iceberg") through to the unsentimental, yet very poignant, "Taking Leave" which deals with some of the problems of ageing and coming to terms with failing powers.

Tove Jansson was an extraordinary children's writer, and it's great to see some of her work for adults finally translated into English. And what a lovely job Sort Of have done: good, clean cover design, and intelligent use of photographs throughout. Ali Smith's introduction does justice to Jansson's writing. Very few children's authors have the capability to write for adults also. Tove Jansson's honesty, clarity and sense of humour shine throughout.
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29 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Charming, funny, sympathetic, wise..., 27 Nov 2006
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I can't resist sharing Body Tonkin's verdict on this wonderful book in The Independent. He devoted his entire column to a review, after first raging about the "snowdrift of Christmas drivel" filling bookshops this winter.
The ideal book for Christmas, he contended, would "honour the experiences and insights of children without sentiment or condescension. It might also salute the changing seasons with a toughly tender eye on wild nature. In doing so, it might even register the passage of time, and the ageing of body and mind, while steering clear of self-pity. And it might (like an unfeasibly flawless companion) contrive to sound charming, funny, sympathetic, wise - and a bit mysterious as well."
"What price would such a paragon command?" Tonkin continued. "£6.99 to be exact. Ideal presents never quite take on tangible form, but A Winter Book comes fairly close...
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful, 3 Nov 2007
By Mrs. K. A. Wheatley "katywheatley" (Leicester, UK) - See all my reviews
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I got this book after loving The Summer Book so much. I was a little daunted to find that this was not a novel, but a collection of short stories. It is often the case that those who write great novels write mediocre short stories as they are very different disciplines. Luckily Jansson excels at both. The stories are slight, almost like sketches. Some deal with her own memories of bohemian childhood, others are straightforward fiction. The memoir stories are often very funny, with that peculiar melancholy that haunts much of her writing about the moomins. I read some of them to my children and they found them hilarious and touching. The only fault I can find is that these are an amalgamation of stories from several volumes of Jansson's work, which has yet to be published in its entirety in English. I would much rather have read the books as they are meant to be rather than having the stories presented to me by an editor. Having said that, better to have this than nothing at all. I am just hoping they hurry up and print everything she has written.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Winter Book
This book is the sequel to Tove's "A Summer Book" which was slightly more enjoyable. It is full of short stories in easily readable chunks. Read more
Published 6 months ago by A. Deacon

4.0 out of 5 stars Solitary Island
This is a collection of short stories by the Finnish author and illustrator Tove Jansson, better known as the creator of the Moomins. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Oliver Redfern

3.0 out of 5 stars Extremely polished and poised but ultimately unsatisfactory
Tove Jansson's short stories are beautifully constructed without a doubt. Her use of language (and its translation here) is artful and evocotive, and her sense of place is... Read more
Published on 22 Aug 2007 by Hooligween

4.0 out of 5 stars Let's be a little more 'objective'....
This review is per pro the Appleton Book Club (6? members) from N.Yorkshire and we had previously read The Summer Book. Read more
Published on 18 Mar 2007 by Mr. R. T. Haynes

5.0 out of 5 stars Thank you Sort Of Books
Well done for reissuing the fantastic The Summer Book last time, and even better, for giving us something new by Tove Jansson now. Read more
Published on 2 Nov 2006 by Hugh

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