ARGONAUT BOOKS

'The 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 and sudden storms. Reviews This slim, wise masterpiece... is both unsentimental and heart-melting, and I read it every year.Guardian - Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, LoveIt is like looking through clear water and seeing, suddenly, the depth ... Jansson was a writer who knew the proper magnitudes ...Read More