Happy Land : Finding my inner Finn: forty years in the world's happiest country - Tim Bird Hardback the State Penitentiary

the State Penitentiary

Valentina Li

eye-opening

at the age of 100

and a crochet and amigurumi aficionado since she can remember

Happy Land : Finding my inner Finn: forty years in the world's happiest country - Tim Bird Hardback the State PenitentiaryA personal view of `the world's happiest country' from an accidental expat in FinlandTim Bird arrived in Finland by accident in the early Eighties. More than forty years on, he is still there. He has watched the transformation of his adopted homeland from semi detached member of the Soviet bloc to modern European nation that tops the rankings, year after year, as `the happiest country in the world'. Does it deserve that status? Do the Finns, known for