Return to Peyton Place

In Return to Peyton Place, Grace Metalious revisits the scandal-scarred New England town that shocked the world in her explosive bestseller Peyton Place. Time has passed, but beneath the town’s polished façade still pulse the same forbidden desires, jealousies, and hypocrisies. Allison MacKenzie, now a successful novelist, dares to expose her hometown’s hidden truths in her book—only to ignite new outrage, betrayals, and heartbreak. With her trademark candor and boldness, Metalious strips away the pretense of small-town respectability to reveal the tangled passions and moral contradictions lurking behind closed doors. Powerful, provocative, and deeply human, Return to Peyton Place is both a searing social commentary and a mesmerizing portrait of ambition, rebellion, and the cost of telling the truth.