{"product_id":"the-wax-child-by-olga-ravn-9780241752746","title":"The Wax Child","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnlike anything you've read before, \u003cem\u003eThe Wax Child\u003c\/em\u003e is an extraordinary tale of witchcraft from one of the most visionary writers at work today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt was a black night in the year 1620 when Christenze Krukow made the wax child, melting down beeswax and setting 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt looks on as Christenze is haunted by rumour; it hears what the people whisper. It sees how, in the candlelight, she gazes with love at her friends, and hears the things they say in the shadows. It knows pine forest, misty fjord, and the crackle of the burning pyre. It observes the violence in men's eyes and the cruelty of their laws. In time, it begins to understand that once a suspicion of witchcraft has taken hold, it can prove impossible to shake...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBased on an infamous seventeenth-century Danish witch trial, \u003cem\u003eThe Wax Child\u003c\/em\u003e is the extraordinary new novel from Olga Ravn, one of the most acclaimed and original writers at work today—a mesmerising, frightening vision of a time when witches and magic were as real to the human mind as soil and seawater.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Gardners Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46800985686252,"sku":"9780241752746","price":32.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/90c515590bb98fbe79fe32a6d926c7fe.jpg?v=1757321195","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/the-wax-child-by-olga-ravn-9780241752746","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}