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
The True Deceiver The True Deceiver The True Deceiver (1982; Swedish: "Den ärliga bedragaren", lit. "The Honest Deceiver") is a novel by Swedish-Finnish author Tove Jansson. It was translated into English by Thomas Teal and won the Best Translated Book Award in 2011. The novel was first published in 1982 by Schildts Förlags Ab, Finland. The English translation was first published in the UK by Sort Of Books, then in the US through NYRB Classics, an imprint of The New York Review of Books. "Snow has been falling on the village all winter long. It covers windows and piles up in front of