{"product_id":"the-real-deal-guide-to-finnish-happiness-paperback","title":"The Real Deal Guide to Finnish Happiness Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat Finns actually do and which bits work if you don't live in a forest.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFinland has been the happiest country on earth for nine years running and it does not look like cheering. It looks like a man alone on a jetty, delighted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy any sensible reckoning Finland shouldn't work. It's too cold, too dark, too quiet and too far from everything, yet it keeps topping the table. Joel Willans has lived there for over twenty years and written two books about its problems. In this one he works out why the place functions at all and which parts of it you can steal without moving to a forest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eThe seven types\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe No Niin Native\u003c\/strong\u003e finds happiness in a vocabulary nobody else can pronounce.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe February Cyclist\u003c\/strong\u003e finds it on the far side of something unpleasant and is already halfway across.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Perkele Whisperer\u003c\/strong\u003e finds it in one word, said quietly and with real feeling.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Löyly Masochist\u003c\/strong\u003e finds it at eighty degrees and climbing, reaching for the ladle.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Mökki Vanisher\u003c\/strong\u003e finds it somewhere with no road to it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Fluent in Silencer\u003c\/strong\u003e finds it about four seconds after everybody stops talking.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Pulla Diplomat\u003c\/strong\u003e finds it in a full pot and somebody else's bad day quietly getting better.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eA whole Finnish year\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou'll then follow all seven from the ice hole in January to the Christmas sauna in December, by way of bog football, Easter witches, berry picking in total silence and a month named after the dead. Each month belongs to the type who copes best when it comes round.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery chapter ends with what anyone can use, wherever they live. The final chapter is an honest ledger of what transfers, what doesn't and what it costs. You can't have the forest by Friday. You can start on the rest by Tuesday.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eWho wrote it\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoel Willans is the author of \u003cem\u003e101 Very Finnish Problems\u003c\/em\u003e, now in its fifth edition, and \u003cem\u003eMore Very Finnish Problems\u003c\/em\u003e, both first published by Gummerus. He has lived in Finland since 2002, married into the place, raised two Finnish children and still cannot roll an r. Very Finnish Problems reaches more than 1.3 million followers across six social channels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's meant to be funny, useful and checkable. Every study is named on the page, from a twenty-year Finnish heart study to a laboratory that paid people to swear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt runs to 176 pages in paperback, on cream paper with pen and ink drawings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Very Finnish Problems","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55733489238343,"sku":"B-RDG-01","price":22.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0076\/3471\/4688\/files\/the-real-deal-guide-to-finnish-happiness-paperback.jpg?v=1793996577","url":"https:\/\/veryfinnishproblems.com\/sv\/products\/the-real-deal-guide-to-finnish-happiness-paperback","provider":"Very Finnish Problems","version":"1.0","type":"link"}