- Published: 11 November 2025
- ISBN: 9780241752746
- Imprint: Viking Fiction
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 144
- RRP: $35.00
The Wax Child

















- Published: 11 November 2025
- ISBN: 9780241752746
- Imprint: Viking Fiction
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 144
- RRP: $35.00
Olga Ravn tugs skillfully at the treads of reality, subtly distorting events to reveal hidden, dislocated truths
The New York Times
A spellbinding tale of loss and longing. A magnificent book. A true masterpiece of both substance and style.
Kirkus
Dark and strange and beautiful and completely gripping
Mark Haddon
The Wax Child has emerged from an imagination that is wild, visionary, and absolutely original. It is beautiful, eerie, sublime, and, like a fingerprint or a snowflake, only one of its kind. Olga Ravn is a roof-raisingly brilliant writer
Neel Mukherjee
Olga Ravn is a master and an alchemist. There's nobody else doing quite what she does
Samantha Harvey
Olga Ravn descends into a dark historical world of fear and danger, nightmarish fantasy, sordid suffering and blood. Magic is portrayed as a real power not only to be feared, but aspired to by an underclass of disadvantaged yet defiant women
Malcolm Gaskill, author of The Ruin of All Witches
‘I gulped The Wax Child down and dreamed wild dreams about it. Just brilliant.’
Max Porter
Sinister magic and folk-horror combine into a novel that is as creepingly atmospheric as it is formally impressive.
Foyles Best Translated Fiction of 2025