There’s no peace here any more, what with everyone trying to help.

Tove Jansson & Tuulikki Pietilä
Notes from an Island

Notes from an Island is both a memoir and homage to the Klovharun island where the two women, Tove Jansson and Tuulikki Pietilä, loved intensely and relinquished only when pressed by age. It is also a unique collaboration between two artists. Tove’s spare, precise prose – diary entries, vignettes, and extracts from Brunström’s log – frame the subtle washes and aquatints created by Tuulikki.

Notes from an Island on the publisher Sort of Books’ website.

The book was first published in Swedish as Anteckningar från en ö in 1996 and was translated into English in 2021.