The Summer Book The Summer Book The Summer Book (in the original Swedish Sommarboken) is a book written by Finnish author Tove Jansson in 1972. An elderly woman and her six-year-old granddaughter Sophia spend a summer together on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland exploring, talking about life, nature, everything but their feelings about Sophia's mother's death and their love for one another. The novelist Ali Smith, reviewing the book in "The Guardian", wrote that Jansson was better known for her Moomin books than for her novels, and that with her worldwide fame, she knew the virtues of withdrawal. In Smith's
Liberalism and centrism in Finland of the Finnish Center ("Suomen Keskusta"), member of LI and ELDR, is based on liberal ideas like decentralization, peasant-like freedom and progressivism. The Swedish minority party Swedish People's Party ("Svenska Folkpartiet i Finland") is also a member of LI, ELDR. The original liberal current is now organized in the Liberals ("Liberaalit"), a very small extra-parliamentary party. At the autonomous island of Åland the Liberals for Åland ("Liberalerna på Åland") are a dominant force. Centrists In the Contributions to liberal theory the following Finnish thinker is included: Liberalism and centrism in Finland This article gives an overview of liberalism and centrism