The Wax Child John Manuel Picador FS|FBA|FXD|FXL|FXR|FV Paperback 2024 Lucy and her best friend

Lucy and her best friend Jack launch an Impersonation Agency

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

As the clock ticks down

between the hours of 10pm and midnight

The Wax Child John Manuel Picador FS|FBA|FXD|FXL|FXR|FV Paperback 2024 Lucy and her best friendIt 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