Finding Dorothy

Maud Gage Baum is the only person who can help the producers stay true to the spirit of the book when M-G-M adapts her late husband's masterpiece, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, for the screen. She recognizes the yearning that defined her life story and resolves to protect Judy Garland, the young actress under pressure from the studio and her ambitious stage mother.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 09 January 2020
Publisher: Quercus Publishing

Hollywood,1938: When Maud Gage Baum learns that M-G-M is adapting her late husband's masterpiece, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, for the screen, she sets out to visit the set. Nineteen years after Frank's passing, Maud is the only person who can help the producers stay true to the spirit of the book, as she is the only one left who knows its secrets.

But the moment she hears Judy Garland rehearsing the first notes of "Over the Rainbow," Maud recognizes the yearning that defined her own life story. From her rebellious youth as a suffragette's daughter to her coming of age as one of the first women in the Ivy League, from her blossoming romance with Frank to the hardscrabble prairie years that inspired his famous work, Maud's journey is a testament to the power of love, magic, and one incredible woman.

With the young actress under pressure from the studio and her ambitious stage mother, Maud resolves to protect her—the way she tried so hard to protect the real Dorothy.

This richly imagined novel tells the story behind The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the book that inspired the iconic film, through the eyes of author L. Frank Baum's intrepid wife, Maud.

Weight: 260g
Dimension: 130 x 197 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529403459