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Miss Treadway and the Field of Stars

A Novel

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London, November 1965. Millions of Londoners are living and working on the fringes of the fashionable West End. Tales of the Moors murders fill the papers. Beyond the glamour of the all-white Carnaby Street scene lie other worlds of Caribbean music, Turkish coffee houses, Soho prostitution and stolen identities.
One Saturday evening, American star Iolanthe Green finishes a performance, walks out onto the Charing Cross Road and disappears. At first everybody cares where she went ... and then nobody does.
A diverse group of émigré Londoners—an Irish policeman, a Turkish coffee house owner and a Jamaican accountant—are drawn together to search for a woman who's quickly being forgotten. They are led by Iolanthe's dresser, Anna Treadway—a woman who knows quite a bit about reinvention—and together they will travel into a world of underground music clubs, back street abortionists, seaside ghost towns and police brutality.

Passionate, witty and surprising, Miss Treadway and the Field of Stars is a mystery, a romance and a tale of immigration: the story of how some people are forced to start their lives again and again and again....

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 13, 2017
      Set in swingin’ and sometimes savage 1960s London, Emmerson’s first novel is enigmatic and breathtaking. American actress Iolanthe Green leaves the theater one evening and disappears. Discouraged by the lack of procedural concern on the part of the police, Anna Treadway, Iolanthe’s dresser, emboldens herself to search for Iolanthe on her own. She’s joined by Aloysius, an accountant from Jamaica. Anna’s need for understanding takes her far from London’s underbelly of seedy jazz clubs and the violent secrets of the color divide. She crosses the countryside searching for answers, not just about Iolanthe’s disappearance but about Anna’s own past and her future. Eloquent and understated, this is a simple and languid portrait of diverse characters and their interconnections. Each character has a singular story that unfolds throughout the search, encompassing hidden fears, long-buried secrets, and personal truths. Readers will be immersed throughout.

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