5/19/2023 0 Comments Tove jansson illustrationsThe Island is in many ways the reverse of Moominvalley, where the doors are always open to the constant flow of waifs and strays that Moominmamma welcomes with a piece of cake and a pot of coffee. The shame of being discovered on someone else’s island was enormous. Sophia leaped ahead, turned and came back, and ran around her in circles. ‘It was pure primitive flight, but she couldn’t think of anything better. As the unlikely housebreakers take flight, comically, pathetically into the middle of the small island, the gap between child and grandparent vanishes altogether. The pair take a boat over and ignoring the ‘keep out’ signs they land and break into the house – only to be caught out by the return of the neighbours. There’s a glorious piece of bad behaviour instigated by Grandmother as she spies a new neighbour with a distastefully lavish new summer house.
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