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Looking for Peyton Place : a novel

When successful writer Annie Barnes returns to Middle River following her mother's death, many of the residents fear she plans to write a novel about their town, just as they believe Grace Metalious did years ago with Peyton Place. Actually, Annie visits for a month to investigate why her mother got sick and one of her sisters is now ill.

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  • "When successful writer Annie Barnes returns to Middle River following her mother's death, many of the residents fear she plans to write a novel about their town, just as they believe Grace Metalious did years ago with Peyton Place. Actually, Annie visits for a month to investigate why her mother got sick and one of her sisters is now ill."@en
  • "An author returns to her hometown of Middle River, New Hampshire to investigate some unsettling facts about the death of her mother. Her discovery that the town's major employer, a paper mill, is polluting the environment and making people sick alienates her from most of the townspeople."@en
  • "A picture-perfect New Hampshire town hides a history of scandal and intrigue--a legacy Annie Barnes has never shaken since growing up in timy Middle River. five decades ago the area was rocked by a bombshell of a book."@en
  • "A New York Times Bestselling Author. To an outsider, Middle River is a picture-perfect New Hampshire town. But Annie grew up there, and she knows all its secrets - as did her idol Grace Metalious, author of the infamous novel Peyton Place, which laid a small town's sexual secrets bare for all the world to see. Annie Barnes is now a bestselling author and when the citizens of Middle River hear Anni."
  • "Annie returns to Middle River after her mother's death where she uncovers a scandal--her mother's illness may have been caused by chemicals from the local paper mill."
  • "The death of her mother brings writer Annie Barnes back to the New Hampshire mill town of her youth to investigate the pollution caused by the local paper mill, a contamination that may have been the cause of her mother's fatal illness."
  • "The death of her mother brings writer Annie Barnes back to the New Hampshire mill town of her youth to investigate the pollution caused by the local paper mill, a contamination that may have been the cause of her mother's fatal illness."@en
  • "For Annie Barnes, going home to Middle River means dealing with truths long hidden, some of which she buried there herself. But it is a journey she knows she must take if she is to put to rest, once and for all, her misgivings about her mother's recent death. To an outsider, Middle River is a picture-perfect New Hampshire town. But Annie grew up there, and she knows all its secrets -- as did her idol Grace Metalious, author of the infamous novel Peyton Place, which laid a small town's sexual secrets bare for all the world to see. Though Grace actually lived in a nearby town, the residents of Middle River have always believed she used them as the model for her revolutionary novel, and some even insist Annie's grandmother was the model for one of Grace's most scandalous characters. With these rumors and whispers about Peyton Place haunting her childhood, Annie came to identify so closely with the author that it was Grace and her bold rebellion against 1950s conformity that inspired Annie to get out of Middle River and make a life for herself in Washington, D.C. It's been a good life, too. Annie Barnes is now a bestselling author, reaching that level with only her third novel. Success has given her a confidence she never had as a young girl in Middle River -- and it has given the residents of that town something new to worry about. When they hear Annie is returning for a lengthy visit, everyone, including Annie's two sisters, believes she's coming home to write about them. Though amused by the discomfort she causes in Middle River, Annie has no intention of writing a novel about the town or its people. It is her mother's death -- under circumstances that don't quite add up -- that has brought her back, and soon her probing questions start to make people nervous. When she discovers evidence of dangerous pollutants emanating from the local paper mill -- poisons that she comes to believe contributed to her mother's fatal illness -- Annie finds herself at odds with most of the town's inhabitants, including her sisters, both of whom are seemingly unfazed by the incriminating evidence she uncovers. Because the mill is the town's main employer, everyone is afraid of what might happen if Annie digs deeper, and their fears soon start to turn ugly. For Annie, though, there is no turning back, as passion and rage propel her forward in a determined quest. Coming face-to-face with decades of secrets and lies, she knows she must find the strength to move beyond the legacy of Grace Metalious, defying her past to heal the wounds of the town and her own family."@en

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  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Romance fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Translations"
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Love stories"
  • "Love stories"@en

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  • "Looking for Peyton Place : a novel"
  • "Looking for Peyton Place : a novel"@en
  • "Looking for Peyton Place"
  • "Looking for Peyton Place"@en
  • "הערגה לפייטון פלייס : 2"
  • "Looking for Peyton Place a novel"@en
  • "Tiszta Kék"
  • "Regreso a Middle River"@es
  • "Regreso a Middle River"
  • "ha-ʻErgah le-Peiṭon-Ples"
  • "Looking for Peyton place"
  • "הערגה לפייטון פלייס : 1"
  • "ha-ʻErgah le-Peiṭon Pleis"
  • "Looking for Peyton Place : a novel [large print]"@en
  • "Hận và yêu"
  • "Povernenni︠a︡"
  • "LOOKING FOR PEYTON PLACE"@en
  • "Looking for peyton place"
  • "Looking For Peyton Place"@en

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