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 *

Olga Ravn (Author)
Olga Ravn is one of Denmark’s most celebrated contemporary authors. Her novel The Employees was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2021, the Ursula K.Le Guin Prize and longlisted for the National Book Awards and the Dublin Literary Award. Her novel My Work won the Politikens Literature Prize in 2021 and led to changes in the country’s maternity rights. She has also written shorter pieces for the New Yorker, the Paris Review and Granta.

Martin Aitken (Translator)
Martin Aitken has translated the works of many Scandinavian writers, among them Karl Ove Knausgaard, Helle Helle, Hanne Ørstavik and Olga Ravn. He lives in Denmark.