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Book at Bedtime: Tove Jansson - The True Deceiver

Book at Bedtime: Tove Jansson - The True Deceiver: Episode 1

The True Deceiver

Episode 1

Tove Jansson - The True Deceiver

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Katri offers to run errands for an aging artist. But what does she want in return?

4 Extra Debut. Katri offers to run errands for an aging artist in a Swedish village. But what does she want in return? Read by Indira Varma.

Indira Varma reads from the novel by Tove Jansson. 

Winter settles over the Swedish fishing village of Västerby. Katri offers to run errands for the ageing artist who lives on the outskirts. But what does this strange young woman want in return from Anna Aemelin?

Abridged by Jeremy Osborne.

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By Tove Jansson. The story of two very different women, set in the winter snows of Sweden.

By Tove Jansson. The story of two very different women, set in the deep winter snows of the fictional Swedish hamlet of Västerby

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