The Wax Child John Manuel Picador FS|FBA|FXD|FXL|FXR|FV Paperback 2024

The Wax Child John Manuel Picador FS|FBA|FXD|FXL|FXR|FV Paperback 2024It 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. Based on an infamous seventeenth century Danish witch trial, 'The Wax Child' is a mesmerising, frightening

Lucy and her best friend Jack launch an Impersonation Agency

and the publican's mysteriously talented wife

As the clock ticks down

The robin chirruping on a bough in a snowy woodland picture looks like a nasty piece of work

Harassed and fed up

desperate to end his career as a spy during the Cold War

the famed artist and writer Edward Gorey drew dozens of original illustrations-illustrations now collected in this volume along with marvelously playful selections from the correspondence

between the hours of 10pm and midnight

She rushes over to their house after receiving a frantic phone call one night

one of the guards is convicted of murder and sent to prison

An appointment in a rich suburb of Saint Louis seems to be her ticket to success

With no body and no other witnesses