Sculptor's Daughter

“Now I had to make up my mind and that’s an awful thing to have to do.” Delightful and wonderful memoir of Tove Jansson’s childhood world. Jansson writes as her childhood self, with all the tenderness, jealousy and cruelty of youth, and where her play, pretend and fanciful invention is wholly real. It was delightful to read her childhood wisdom, whimsy, and strong opinions written as if they were the Truth (as they were for her young self). And this sometimes became a gentle reproof of her adults, when she spouted their prejudices as if they were the Gospel. The audiobook is particularly good, performed by Sara Kestelman. “The smaller you are, the bigger Christmas is.”