"(Tove) Jansson was an upper-middle-class bohemian lesbian, living on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland (Klovharu). I was a suburban scouser on a new-build housing estate. It felt as though she was writing just for me."
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"Frank Cottrell Boyce: Five things to learn from the Moomins", The Guardian (December 25, 2015)
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