From the bestselling author of WICKED...When Alice fell down the rabbit-hole, sh
e found Wonderland as rife with inconsistent rules and abrasive egos as the worl
d she left behind. But how did Victorian Oxford react to Alice's disappearance?
Gregory Maguire turns his imagination to the question of underworlds, undergroun
ds, underpinnings -and understandings old and new, offering an inventive spin on
Carroll's enduring tale. Ada, a friend mentioned briefly in Alice's Adventures
in Wonderland, sets out to visit Alice but, arriving a moment too late, tumbles
down the rabbit-hole herself.
Ada brings to Wonderland her own imperfect appr
ehension of cause and effect as she embarks on an odyssey to find Alice and brin
g her safely home from this surreal world below the world. The White Rabbit, the
Cheshire Cat and the bloodthirsty Queen of Hearts interrupt their mad tea party
to suggest a conundrum: if Eurydice can ever be returned to the arms of Orpheus
, or if Lazarus can be raised from the tomb, perhaps Alice can be returned to li
fe. Either way, everything that happens next is After Alice.
