num_pages: 475
description: Switch off those TVs, kill your mobiles and settle down with the most controversial book ever written. Once denounced as 'wicked', 'sordid', 'cheap' 'moral filth', PEYTON PLACE was the top read of its time and sold millions of copies worldwide. Way before TWIN PEAKS, SURVIVOR or BIG BROTHER, the curtains were twitching in the mythical New England town of Peyton Place, and this soapy story exposed the dirty secrets of 1950s small-town America: incest, abortion, adultery, repression and lust. Take a peek ...
language: English
title: Peyton Place
titlecomplete: Peyton Place (Peyton Place, #1)
characters: Allison MacKenzie, Constance MacKenzie, Selena Cross
genres: Coming Of Age, Chick Lit, Historical Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Banned Books, Classics, Romance, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 12027
places: New Hampshire, New England, Peyton Place, New Hampshire
series: Peyton Place
publisher: Virago Press Ltd