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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 migr 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.
About the Author
My name's Miranda Emmerson and I'm originally from London, now living in lovely south Wales. I studied English at Oxford and Playwriting Studies at Birmingham University. In my twenties I worked as a secretary, a web journalist, I wrote for people with a learning disability and I abridged books for BBC Radio 4. In the past decade I've been writing radio drama for the BBC (both original and adapted) , travelling and raising a family.My first book - Fragrant Heart - was a look at the year my partner and I spent living, travelling (and eating!) in Asia. Miss Treadway & the Field of Stars is my first novel.
