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Friday, 23 August 2024

Secret Passages in a Hillside Town, by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen (Pushkin Press) | review by Stephen Theaker

This review originally appeared in Interzone #277 (September–October 2018).

Inspired in part by Enid Blyton's child adventurers, a Finnish five had adventures of their own in the Tourula district of Jyväskylä, back in the 1970s: Olli, Leo, Riku, Anna and Karri. They had a dog, too, Timi, though no one can remember what happened to him. They caught a burglar and appeared in the newspaper. Decades later, Olli Suominen has gone on to be a reasonably well-off publisher. But he's disaffected with his life, loses a remarkable number of umbrellas, and struggles to sleep because the angles in his house aren't quite right.