Elphie Maguire Gregory (2026)

Once upon a time in the land of Oz, a green little girl was born. Elphie: A Wicked Childhood is a coming-of-age story about the most iconic witch ever to grace screens and bookshelves. Young Elphaba is destined to become a witch, bearing the signs from childhood, but what happened before her powers took hold? Elphie is a girl like any other and like no other. She resembles neither her beautiful, pious parents nor her saintly sister, Nessarose. Her skin is green and her mind is cunning, and one day she will command this strange and wonderful world. For now, her journey is only beginning. The road ahead is filled with lessons and heartbreak, the first painful attempts at friendship, and tantalising whispers of magic. It will lead Elphie to the doors of Shiz University and to the girl who will change her life forever.