Moominvalley in November series; but all good things must come to an end, and I wouldn't be pleased at all if anyone else dared to pick up the series in her wake.". The screenwriter and children’s author Frank Cottrell Boyce – another noted Tove Jansson enthusiast – describes the novel as ‘the wisest and most moving book about mourning I’ve ever read’. Moominvalley in November Moominvalley in November (Swedish: "Sent i november", 'Late in November'; Finnish: "Muumilaakson marraskuu") is the ninth and final book in the Moomin series by Finnish author Tove Jansson, and was first published in both her native Swedish and
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