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'I decided to run away. There simply wasn't anything else to do.' Here at last is Moominpappa's promised life story - from the days when he was abandoned in a newspaper parcel on the doorstep of a Moomin orphanage, to when he ran away to see the world and was lucky enough to meet Moominmamma.

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In which I tell of my misunderstood childhood, of the tremendous night of my escape, of the building of my first Moominhouse, and of my historical meeting with Hodgkins.

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This is book 4 of 9 in Moomins. (standard series)

Preceded by Finn Family Moomintroll, and followed by Moominsummer Madness.

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  1. Tove Jansson (Author)

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