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WICKED by GREGORY MAGUIRE

Published by Harper Collins / February 2008

Gregory Maguire clearly has some kind of fairy tale witch fetish thing going on, his previous works include takes on Cinderella and Snow White with Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister and Mirror, Mirror. Now riding high on the back of major success in America (there has even been a stage musical!) comes the Australian publication of Wicked, an imagining of the life of the wicked witch of the west, chief baddie in L Frank Baums legendary The Wizard of Oz.

A fantasy of the first order, Maguire inhabits Baum's world and runs away with it, here we learn about the nature of good and evil as young misunderstood Elphaba grows up to become the wicked witch we know and hid from. There's plenty of humour here too, the Tin Man for instance ends up becoming a victim of domestic violence.

A glorious spin then on a much loved classic tale.

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