A review by 1mpossiblealice
A Winter Book by Tove Jansson

4.0

I read these stories over a couple of weeks, and at first I found it hard to get into because I was reading it alongside thrillers and they're very fast paced - this is the opposite. So I really had to make myself slow down a bit and concentrate instead of trying to race through. Which was good - I loved these stories. They read more like memoir snippets, but either way they are beautifully written and about small things, and the wonder of the natural world. I really felt like I could hear the waves and see the small islands and smell the sea spray as I was reading this. It was so evocative and I love that the stories are just slightly weird, in the way of childhood imagination - but it continues into the stories told from an adult perspective. 
Just one point about the title - I expected all of these to be winter stories, but they're really not, only a few are. Several of them are set during summer.