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The global bestselling series that inspired the hit musical phenomenon.

The final book in Gregory Maguire's Wicked quartet - the series that inspired the major, much-anticipated movie coming to the big screen this November.

The marvellous land of Oz is knotted with social unrest. The Emerald City is mounting an invasion of Munchkinland, Glinda is under house arrest, and the Cowardly Lion is on the run from the law. And look who's knocking at the door. It's none other than Dorothy.

Yes, that Dorothy.

Amid all this chaos, Elphaba's granddaughter has come of age. Now, Rain will take up her broom in an Oz wracked by war.

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The final instalment in this thrilling and compulsively readable saga in with the fate of Oz is decided at last. It's now a land knotted with social unrest: the Emerald City is mounting an invasion of Munchkinland, Glinda is under house arrest, and the Cowardly Lion is on the run from the law. And look who's knocking on the door. It's none other than Dorothy. Yes, that Dorothy.

Author Biography

Gregory Maguire is a bestselling author who has earned rave reviews and a dedicated following for Wicked, the first novel in the Wicked Years quartet (which also included Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men and Out of Oz), that was made into an award-winning musical. He received his doctorate in English Literature from Tufts University, and has taught at Simmons College and other Boston area colleges. He has also served as an artist-in-residence at the Blue Mountain Center, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Hambridge Center. Gregory has lived in Dublin and London, but now makes his home near Boston, Massachusetts, with his partner, their two sons and daughter.

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Maguire returns with the final instalment in his transformative work, a thrilling and compulsively readable saga in which the fate of Oz is decided at last

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