Anne Bogle

And that relationship brings up all kinds of emotions for us.

The Sydney woman who's taking refuge at the convent.

There's not a clear plot exactly.

You don't get to the end and be like, oh, I see how that resolved.

But if you like the sound of a book that's contemplative about kind of blowing up your whole life, I think this is that book.

How does that sound?

I am glad to hear it.

I don't believe it's necessary to linger on those descriptions.

I think you'll be just fine without them.

You're not going to miss anything crucial.

Well, maybe this could be your vicarious one.

But let's give you a backup in case.

Have you read the summer book by Tove Janssen?

Do you know it at all?

160 pages, 1972.

Are we going to call that a modern classic?

So Jansson is Finnish, I believe.

This was originally written in Swedish.

This is a book in translation.

It reads almost as a series of just like really gentle short stories about a grandmother and her six-year-old granddaughter spending the summer together on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland.