The Wax Child

The Wax Child proves Olga Ravn’s ahead of the game. She's the strangest - and best - young novelist in Europe * Telegraph *
Something truly special. A wonderfully weird novel full of lines that will rattle around in your brain. * Sunday Times *
Olga Ravn is a master and an alchemist. There's nobody else doing quite what she does -- Samantha Harvey
I gulped The Wax Child down and dreamed wild dreams about it. Just brilliant. -- Max Porter 
An incantation that explores womanhood, motherhood and bodily autonomy. Martin Aitken’s mesmerising, exquisitely precise translation is, literally, breathtaking. To be read in one sitting, on a dark winter’s night * The Irish Times – Books of the year 2025 *
Gorgeously mercurial. The best historical fiction can turn the driest archival fact into revelation, and here is proof. * TLS *
A subversive tapestry stitched together with poetry, beauty and violence * Financial Times *
Addictive and unsettling -- Claire-Louise Bennett
An instant classic that feels passed down from centuries ago and yet utterly unique, fresh, and modern. Another stunning, surreal journey from an author who seems to never disappoint -- Jeff VanderMeer 
Drawing on folklore, superstition, gossip and historic truth, frequently blending the borders between all four, The Wax Child weaves its strange awful magic like a spell * Daily Mail *