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There's No Place Like…

Tessa McWatt

There’s No Place Like… is a remarkable reinterpretation of Frank Baum’s classic children’s story, The Wizard of Oz. Tessa McWatt’s Dorothy is Beatrice, a rebellious Guyanese eighteen-year-old of rainbow ancestry, whose yellow brick road in the form of an airline ticket carries her all around a world of wonders in the discovery of essential home truths. Her travelling companions, each on his own quest for courage, love or wisdom, are three unusual youths from Ireland, China and India. Other favourite Oz characters have been ingeniously updated, perhaps the most original being the wicked witch, who takes the form a of a paranoid young career woman dangerously obsessed with marketing genetically modified foods.

About the author
Tessa McWatt is a novelist, screenwriter, and librettist. She was born in Guyana and grew up in Canada. Her first novel, Out of My Skin, was published in 1998. Her second, Dragon's Cry, followed in 2000, when it was short-listed for the City of Toronto Book Awards and the Governor General Awards of Canada. Victoria her third novel was published in 2004. She has had shorter pieces published in Canadian literary journals, and her performed work was set to music by a contemporary classical composer. She is the writer and producer of a film based on John Berger's novel, To the Wedding. She has taught literature and creative writing at institutions in London as well as in Canada. There's No Place Like… is her first work written specifically for teenaged readers.