“One of those rare stories capable of making the reader feel at one with the writer.” Irish Times
What mattered most to Tove Jansson, she explained in her eighties, was work and love, a sentiment she echoes in this tender and original novel. Translated for the first time into English, Fair Play portrays a love between two older women, a writer and artist, as they work side-by-side in their Helsinki studios, travel together and share summers on a remote island. In the generosity and respect they show each other and the many small shifts they make to accommodate each other’s creativity we are shown a relationship both heartening and truly progressive.
A biopic of the celebrated Moomins creator was released in 2021 and has been critically well-received, see the trailer and a review here.
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