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We’re here to help you find that book that you can’t put down, the book you’ll push on all your friends, the book that’ll change your life.

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We’re delighted to see The Wax Child by Olga Ravn We’re delighted to see The Wax Child by Olga Ravn on the newly unveiled International Booker Prize 2026 Longlist ✨ See link in bio for our review | 📷 @penguinartdept | Cover design @d4njackson | #Bookstoker The wax child entered this world in the early 1600s and was christened on the Danish island of Funen. We know this because it tells us so; a beeswax doll with human hair and fingernail parings, it looks like a child, longs to be a child but will never be. Now that its mistress is dead and gone, it lies face up beneath the soil, dreaming and remembering. It has stories to tell us, of witchcraft and persecution, female solidarity and betrayal. Based on historical witch trials, The Wax Child by Olga Ravn is an eerie, unsettling and oddly beautiful novel. #bookrecs #bookswelove #internationalbookerprize #litfic #olgaravn #readthisbook #thewaxchild #translatedfiction #whattoreadnext
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