Tove Jansson is one of the greatest children's writers there has ever been

- Sir Terry Pratchett,

[The letters] cover war, fame and her first infatuation with another woman...all related in a voice that is funny, gracious, intimate

The Observer

Witty, shrewd and hugely entertaining

- Boyd Tonkin, Spectator

Letters from Tove offers readers the privilege of spending time inside an intelligent, creative, curious, generous, funny, unsentimental mind. Few books have given me as much pure pleasure this year.

- Anna Carey, Irish Times

There have been several major biographies of Tove, but reading her letters (to her mother, friends, lovers) over 50 years was a revelation. I thought: "Finally, it's her own authentic voice."

- Sophia Jansson, Radio Times

In Letters from Tove there are treasures aplenty - cultural history gems as well as biographical revelations, all related in a voice that's funny, gracious, intimate.

- Hephzibah Anderson, Guardian

It's no surprise to discover from this marvellous collection that Tove Jansson wrote such wonderful, heartfelt, interesting letters.

- Caroline Sanderson, Bookseller

Reading these letters, you will gradually fall under the illusion that they are addressed to you. This is how inviting, candid, and quietly dazzling Tove Jansson's prose is in her correspondence. ... At the end of the book, you will feel that you have a new, very close friend.

- Hernan Diaz, author of In the Distance,