Looking for Peyton Place : a novel / Barbara Delinsky.
By: Delinsky, Barbara.
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BookPublisher: New York : Scribner, c2005Description: 358 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0743246446.Subject(s): Women novelists -- Fiction | City and town life -- Fiction | New Hampshire -- Fiction | Secrecy -- FictionGenre/Form: Psychological fiction. | Love stories.DDC classification: 813/.54 Summary: When a successful writer based in Washington, DC, returns home to New Hampshire's Middle River following her mother's death, many of the small community's residents are nervous. They fear Annie Barnes is planning to write a thinly disguised novel about their town, just like they believe Grace Metalious did many years ago with her blockbuster Peyton Place. Actually, Annie visits for a month to investigate why her mother got sick and why one of her sisters is now ill. She also hopes to mend fences with her siblings, who feel she should have done more when their mother was sick.
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When a successful writer based in Washington, DC, returns home to New Hampshire's Middle River following her mother's death, many of the small community's residents are nervous. They fear Annie Barnes is planning to write a thinly disguised novel about their town, just like they believe Grace Metalious did many years ago with her blockbuster Peyton Place. Actually, Annie visits for a month to investigate why her mother got sick and why one of her sisters is now ill. She also hopes to mend fences with her siblings, who feel she should have done more when their mother was sick.
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