A mystery a love story and a darkly beguiling tale of secrets and reinvention Miss Treadway & The Field of Stars is a sparkling debut for anyone who loves Kate Atkinson Sadie Jones and Sarah Waters. HOW DO YOU FIND A MISSING ACTRESS IN A CITY WHERE EVERYONEâe(tm)S PLAYING A ROLE? 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 eveningâe(tm)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 Iolantheâe(tm)s secrets Anna is going to have to face up to a few of her ownâe¦