I don´t have much, if any, experience with biographies, but this one I found to be fantastic. Though it does help that the person the book is about is someone I´ve greatly admired since I was a little child. In Finland we are taught about Tove Jansson several times during our education, but it´s always been a very brief insight into her life and we´ve focused on the Moomins. Tuula Karjalainen goes through pretty much everything: Tove´s life from birth to death, her most important relationships and her career, or more like careers. There are a lot of quotations incorporated in the text and it often felt like it was Tove herself telling me about her life. Karjalainen was allowed to read Tove´s wide correspondence and was so able to share her authentic thoughts, which in my opinion makes this book so special. There are also a lot of well chosen photos that really helped to understand what kind of an artist Tove was, and how her works evolved over time. Tove Jansson: Work and Love is extremely thought provoking and emotive, it gave me huge amounts of inspiration and taught me some important life lessons. I loved every moment of reading it.