{"product_id":"the-wax-child-olga-ravn","title":"The Wax Child - Olga Ravn","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"synopsis-heading-wrap\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\" style=\"font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;\"\u003eWe are very excited to collaborate with our dear friends at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\" style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.chapter34.co.uk\/\"\u003eCHAPTER 34\u003c\/a\u003e,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\" style=\"font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;\"\u003e an independent bookshop just round the corner from us in Shoreham by Sea.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\" style=\"font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\" style=\"font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;\"\u003eEach month they are handpicking a small curated selection for our customers at Neighbourhood Store. \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"synopsis-heading-wrap\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\" style=\"font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"synopsis-heading-wrap\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\" style=\"font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;\"\u003eEvery aspect of CHAPTER 34 is designed to help you discover new books, ideas, and encourage you to look beyond what you usually read. 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They do this by carrying and promoting books by a diverse range of authors, over a diverse range of subjects.  If you are in town you simply must pop in, be prepared to overstay a 'pop in' mind.  The serve coffee too so get comfortable and enjoy!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none white-space-prewrap\" style=\"font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"synopsis-heading-wrap\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\" style=\"font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"synopsis-heading-wrap\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\" style=\"font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;\"\u003e-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"synopsis-heading-wrap\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\" style=\"font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;\"\u003eNow about this book...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"synopsis-heading-wrap\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\" style=\"font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"synopsis-heading-wrap\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLonglisted for the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/category\/cultural-highlights\/book-awards\/the-international-booker-prize\"\u003eInternational Booker Prize 2026\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003cp\u003eBased on an infamous seventeenth century Danish witch trial, \u003ci\u003eThe Wax Child\u003c\/i\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\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CHAPTER 34 BOOKSHOP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56996192682370,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0386\/6732\/1483\/files\/chapter34template_16.png?v=1792764289","url":"https:\/\/neighbourhoodstore.co.uk\/products\/the-wax-child-olga-ravn","provider":"Neighbourhood Store ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}