Return to Peyton Place is a 1959 novel by Grace Metalious, a sequel to her best-selling 1956 novel Peyton Place.
After the phenomenal success of her first novel, Metalious hastily penned a sequel centering on the life and loves of bestselling author Allison MacKenzie, who ironically follows in the footsteps of her mother by having an affair with a married man, her publisher Lewis Jackman. When she returns to her hometown following the publication...
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Return to Peyton Place is a 1959 novel by Grace Metalious, a sequel to her best-selling 1956 novel Peyton Place.
After the phenomenal success of her first novel, Metalious hastily penned a sequel centering on the life and loves of bestselling author Allison MacKenzie, who ironically follows in the footsteps of her mother by having an affair with a married man, her publisher Lewis Jackman. When she returns to her hometown following the publication of her first novel, Samuel's Castle, she is forced to face the wrath of its residents, who are incensed by their barely-disguised counterparts and the revelation of town secrets in the book. Roberta Carter makes it her mission to ban the book from the high school library, while at the same time trying to dissolve her son Ted's marriage to his Italian bride. Another union in trouble is that of Allison's mother Constance, who is shocked by her daughter's exposé, and stepfather Michael Rossi, the school principal and one of the novel's only...
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