Catherine tells it herself
they begin their programme of human extermination
she falls in with Mathilde Spalt
We've been told that pain is purely physical
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