The Sculptor's Daughter gives an insight into Tove Jansson's own childhood world.

It describes, in novel-like chapters, the artists' home at Skatudden in Helsinki and summer life in the archipelago.

She recreates an outward bourgeois and bohemian environment that is largely dominated by her father, the sculptor Viktor Jansson.

Inside under the tree, Christmas is huge, it is a green jungle with red apples and sadly harmonious angels spinning around themselves in their sewing thread and guarding the entrance to the primeval forest.

And the primeval forest continues endlessly inside the glass balls, Christmas is absolute security thanks to the tree.