White Houses: A Novel

White Houses: A Novel

For readers ofÂ The Paris WifeÂ andÂ The Swans of Fifth AvenueÂ comes a love story inspired by â€œone of the most intriguing relationships in historyâ€*â€”betweenÂ Eleanor Roosevelt and â€œfirst friendâ€ Lorena Hickok.

Lorena Hickok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on Franklin Rooseveltâ€™s first presidential campaign. Having grown up worse than poor in South Dakota and reinvented herself as the most prominent woman reporter in America, â€œHick,â€ as sheâ€™s known to her friends and admirers, is not quite instantly charmed by the idealistic, patrician Eleanor. But then, as her connection with the future first lady deepens into intimacy, what begins as a powerful passion matures into a lasting love, and a life that Hick never expected to have. She moves into the White House, where her status as â€œfirst friendâ€ is an open secret, as are FDRâ€™s own lovers. After she takes a job in the Roosevelt administration, promoting and protecting both Roosevelts, she comes to know Franklin not only as a great president but as a complicated rival and an irresistible friend, capable of changing lives even after his death. Through it all, even as Hickâ€™s bond with Eleanor is tested by forces both extraordinary and common, and as she grows as a woman and a writer, she never loses sight of the love of her life.Â

From Washington, D.C. to Hyde Park, from a little white house on Long Island to an apartment on Manhattanâ€™s Washington Square, Amy Bloomâ€™s new novel moves elegantly through fascinating places and times, written in compelling prose and with emotional depth, wit, and acuity.

Advance praise forÂ White Houses

â€œAmy Bloom brings an untold slice of history so dazzlingly and devastatingly to life, it took my breath away.â€â€”Paula McLain, author ofÂ The Paris Wife

â€œA novel of the secret, scandalous love of Eleanor Roosevelt and her longtime friend and companion Lorena Hickok, who relates the tale in her own, quite wonderful voice.â€â€”Joyce Carol Oates

â€œLorena Hickok is a woman who found love with another lost soul, Eleanor Roosevelt. And love is what this book is all about: It suffuses every page, so that by the time you reach the end, you are simply stunned by the beauty of the world these two carved out for themselves.â€â€”Melanie Benjamin, author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue*
Country USA
Manufacturer Random House
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2018-02-13
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Random House
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2018-02-13
Format	Kindle eBook

White Houses: A Novel

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