The True Deceiver Needles Hit by a Farm is

Hit by a Farm is a hilarious recounting of Catherine and Melissa's trials of "getting back to the land

from the microbes in our showers to the crickets in our basements

Larkin may think she's switched from detecting to directing

A natural history of the wilderness in our homes

But what would the neighbors say

The True Deceiver Needles Hit by a Farm isWinner of the Best Translated Book Award Deceptionthe lies we tell ourselves and the lies we tell othersis the subject of this, Tove Janssons most unnerving and unpredictable novel. Here Jansson takes a darker look at the subjects that animate the best of her work, from her sensitive tale of island life, The Summer Book, to her famous Moomin stories: solitude and community, art and life, love and hate. Snow has been falling on the village all winter