I grew up on Jansson's books, so maybe it's the nostalgia making me rate this book so high, but the way she writes is just so... Human.

Realistic dialogue is a huge thing for me in books (I hate it when those that are supposed to be ordinary people sound like movie characters), and Fair Play manages to capture daily interactions, daily mundanity, perfectly.

Nothing really happens in this book. But at the same time, it is a love story (a series of love stories?) and everything about it feels so real.