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Son of a witch : a novel

Son of a witch : a novel

Book 2005

After the death of Elphaba Thropp, the Wicked Witch of the West, Liir, an adolescent boy is found bruised, comatose and left for dead in a gully. He is tended at the Cloister of Saint Glinda by the silent novice called Candle, who wills him back to life with her musical gifts. What dark force left Liir in this condition and is he really Elphaba's son, and if he is, does he have her powers?