{"product_id":"9781908745934","title":"Notes from an Island - Tove Jansson","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunstr�m, 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 this period and a homage to the mature love that Tove and 'Tooti' shared for their island and for each other. Tove's spare prose, and Tuulikki's subtle washes and aquatints combine to form a work of meditative beauty. '... Tooti wandered aimlessly around the island and stood stock still for long periods. I thought I knew what she was doing. She was working again. Copperplate etchings and wash drawings. Mostly the lagoon, the lagoon as a consummate mirror for clouds and birds, the lagoon in a storm, in fog. And the granite, first and foremost, the granite, the cliff, the rocks. It's all peace and quiet now.'\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tove Jansson","offers":[{"title":"112 pages, 24 full page sepia aquatints \/ 07\/10\/2021 \/ Memoirs","offer_id":57110750265719,"sku":"9781908745934","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781908745934.jpg?v=1779386915","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781908745934","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}