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Return to Peyton Place is a 1959 novel by Grace Metalious.

Hoping to cash in on the phenomenal success of her first novel, the blockbuster hit Peyton Place (1956), Metalious penned a sequel centering on the life and loves of author Allison Mackenzie, who ironically follows in the footsteps of her mother by having an affair with a married man.

While Return to Peyton Place had many of the same soap opera elements of the original, it lacked its narrative style, and read like a hack novel that had been written quickly and without much thought in order to make a fast buck. Although it sold well, its total sales in no way approached those of its predecessor, and the 1961 film adaptation - unlike Peyton Place
- was a critical and commercial failure. (An all-new cast was hired, to spare the expense of re-engaging the same actors, but this only seemed to add to the tawdry appearance of the production.)

A daytime drama titled Return to Peyton Place aired on NBC from 1972 to 1974, but this series was based on the original book, and not its sequel.

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