Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson #ToveTrove

My latest contribution to the ever-expanding Tove Trove Library “Moomintroll woke up and lay a long time looking at the ceiling before he realised where he was. He had slept a hundred nights and a hundred days, and his dreams still thronged about his head trying to coax him back to sleep.” – Chapter One Finn Family Moomintroll Finn Family Moomintroll, or Trollkarlens hatt (‘The Magician’s Hat’) in its earliest Swedish incarnation, was the third book in Tove Jansson’s original Moomin series about a family of benevolent, philosophical trolls with downy fur and soft, rounded snouts, who inhabit an unusual house in a beautiful woodland valley by the sea. I chose to re‑read this title in June because the story begins in springtime and continues into late summer1, so it felt like the ideal moment to pick it up again. **************************** “In The Hobgoblin’s Hat Tove Jansson the writer enlarged her Moomin world, sharpened her aesthetic, honed her vocabulary and anchored the codes of…