How do you find a missing actress in a city where everyone’s playing a role?A mystery, a love-story and a darkly beguiling tale of secrets and reinvention set in 1960s London.‘FABULOUS!’ Helen Simonson, author of Major Pettigrew’s Last StandA STYLIST MOST EXCITING NEW READ OF JANUARY 2017How do you find a missing actress in a city where everyone’s playing a role?A mystery, a love-story and a darkly beguiling tale of secrets and reinvention set in 1960s London.How do you find a missing actress in a city where everyone’s playing a role?A mystery, a love-story and a darkly beguiling tale of secrets and reinvention set in 1960s London.‘FABULOUS!’ Helen Simonson, author of Major Pettigrew’s Last StandA STYLIST MOST EXCITING NEW READ OF JANUARY 2017Soho, 1965.In a tiny two-bed flat above a Turkish café on Neal Street lives Anna Treadway, a young dresser at the Galaxy Theatre.When the American actress Iolanthe Green disappears after an evening’s performance at the Galaxy, the newspapers are wild with speculation about her fate.But as the news grows old and the case grows colder, it seems Anna is the only person left determined to find out the truth.Her search for the missing actress will take her into an England she did not know existed: an England of jazz clubs and prison cells, backstreet doctors and seaside ghost towns, where her carefully calibrated existence will be upended by violence but also, perhaps, by love.For in order to uncover Iolanthe’s secrets, Anna is going to have to face up to a few of her own…‘A fabulous depiction of a London where the 'Swinging Sixties' hides a darker more complicated story of prejudice and struggle. I loved the strong women and evocative writing from an author offering more questions than clues’ Helen Simonson, author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand‘A fabulous period piece, expertly evoked, that looks at race, identity, isolation and acceptance, and everyone’s need to find love’ Daily Mail‘Well researched and well crafted’ Observer‘A deftly assured debut, full of layers and characters that come alive in a few vivid sentences. I can’t wait to read more from Miranda Emmerson’ Red‘A zippy read set in the Swinging Sixties’ Good Housekeeping‘Scintillating’ Observer‘Vibrant and atmospheric’ Daily ExpressMiranda Emmerson is a playwright and author living in Wales. She has written numerous drama adaptations for BBC Radio 4 as well as some highly-acclaimed original drama. Miss Treadway & The Field of Stars is her first novel.• The major literary debut for Spring 2016; for anyone who loves Kate Atkinson, Sadie Jones and Emma Healey• Pre-publication author tour of bookshops and targeted superproof mailing to key retailers and influencers• Miranda has written numerous drama adaptations for BBC Radio 4 as well as highly-acclaimed original dramas• The novel has some autobiographical elements - Miranda spent a lot of time in theatres as a child, thanks to her actor parents (her father is Oliver Ford Davies, who has appeared in Star Wars and Game of Thrones)Competition: God In Ruins; Paying Guests; Life After Life; Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry; The Miniaturist; Behind The Scenes At The Museum; Case Histories; One Good Turn; The Outcast; Night Watch; Tipping The Velvet; When Will There Be Good News?; Started Early, Took My Dog; Little Stranger; Essex Serpent; God In Ruins. Anthony Doerr;Agatha Christie; Sophie Hannah; Patrick Gale; Helen Dunmore; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Ngaio Marsh; Arthur Conan Doyle; John Curran; Charles Osborne; Elena Ferrante; Kate Atkinson; Anne Tyler; Kazuo Ishiguro; Sebastian Faulks; Alan Bennett; William Boyd; Hanya Yanagihara; Rachel Joyce; Sarah Waters;
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