Daisy Chain by Justine Gilbert | paperback | Shortlisted for the Paul Torday Memorial Prize 2024
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Shortlisted for the Paul Torday Memorial Prize 2024, Page Turner Awards Winner 2022 and Winner of the Historical Fiction Company Silver Medal 2022 | Free UK delivery for orders over £17.99
Justine Gilbert shines new light on the tender side of one of America’s legendary figures, President Franklin Roosevelt with a passionate and illuminating retelling of a seismic era from the perspective of ‘the other woman'.
Louise Dean, award-winning author and founder of The Novelry
Justine Gilbert is a master storyteller. Highly recommended.
Historical Fiction Company 5-Star Award
Daisy Chain was well researched and informative and I could hear the voice of Daisy as I was reading it.
Eimear Lawlor, author of Dublin’s Girl; A Revelation.
It's the Great Depression. The world is tilting towards war. In the White House, nothing is as it seems.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the married president of the United States, has started a long and passionate affair with his cousin Daisy, and moves her into the West Wing.
Daisy is one of FDR's band of unconventional women: Eleanor Roosevelt, the fiery labour organiser, Frances Perkins, the first female Secretary of Labour, and his secretary Missy LeHand, a political operative in her own right. Middle-aged spinster Daisy becomes FDR's secret wife. That's not her only secret.
This fictional biography written by a family member who knew Daisy is the untold true story of a hidden love and hidden contributions, and of a presidency that benefitted from both.
Justine Gilbert shines new light on the tender side of one of America’s legendary figures, President Franklin Roosevelt with a passionate and illuminating retelling of a seismic era from the perspective of ‘the other woman'.
Louise Dean, award-winning author and founder of The Novelry
Justine Gilbert is a master storyteller. Highly recommended.
Historical Fiction Company 5-Star Award
Daisy Chain was well researched and informative and I could hear the voice of Daisy as I was reading it.
Eimear Lawlor, author of Dublin’s Girl; A Revelation.
It's the Great Depression. The world is tilting towards war. In the White House, nothing is as it seems.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the married president of the United States, has started a long and passionate affair with his cousin Daisy, and moves her into the West Wing.
Daisy is one of FDR's band of unconventional women: Eleanor Roosevelt, the fiery labour organiser, Frances Perkins, the first female Secretary of Labour, and his secretary Missy LeHand, a political operative in her own right. Middle-aged spinster Daisy becomes FDR's secret wife. That's not her only secret.
This fictional biography written by a family member who knew Daisy is the untold true story of a hidden love and hidden contributions, and of a presidency that benefitted from both.
