About the Book: The Wax Child: From the International Booker Prize shortlisted
author
'Olga Ravn is a master and an alchemist. Theresnobody else doing quite what she
does Samantha Harvey
It was a black night in the year 1620 when Christenze Krukow made the wax child,
when she melted down beeswax and set it in the image of a small human. For days,
she carried it tucked beneath her arm, shaping it with the warmth of her flesh,
giving it life. She fashioned for it eyes and ears that cannot open, and yet it
watches and listens.
It looks on as Christenze is haunted by