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Horrors of the house of wax: Little, by Edward Carey, reviewed

3 November 2018

9:00 AM

3 November 2018

9:00 AM

The reader of Edward Carey’s Little must have a tender heart and a strong stomach. You will weep, you will applaud, you will wonder if your nerves can take it, but most of all you will shudder. In this gloriously gruesome imagining of the girlhood of Marie Tussaud, mistress of wax, fleas will bite, rats will run and heads will roll and roll and roll.

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