Daisy Chain

<p><strong>Shortlisted for the Paul Torday Memorial Prize 2024 Page Turner Awards Winner 2022 and Winner of the Historical Fiction Company Silver Medal 2022</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>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. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>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. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>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.</span></p><p><br></p>