White Houses

by Amy Bloom

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Pub Date 3 May 2018 | Archive Date 3 May 2018

Granta Publications | Granta Books

Historical Fiction | LGBTQIA

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Description

In 1933, President Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt took up residence in the White House. With them went the celebrated journalist Lorena Hickok - Hick to friends - a straight-talking reporter from South Dakota, whose passionate relationship with the idealistic, patrician First Lady would shape the rest of their lives.

White Houses is the story of Eleanor and Hick's hidden love, and of Hick's unlikely journey from her dirt-poor childhood to the centre of privilege and power. Filled with the secrets and scandals of the era, it explores the potency of enduring love.

In 1933, President Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt took up residence in the White House. With them went the celebrated journalist Lorena Hickok - Hick to friends - a straight-talking reporter from...

Advance Praise

‘White Houses demonstrates that real people are far more fascinating than icons. But in the hands of a master storyteller, the combination is dazzling’
Lionel Shriver

‘Irresistibly readable, fascinating material—Amy Bloom has written a remarkably intimate and yet informative 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’
Joyce Carol Oates

‘Amy Bloom illuminates one of the most intriguing relationships in history with her graceful prose and sensitive portrayals in White Houses. Her Lorena Hickok is entirely sympathetic and often quite funny, yet ultimately she 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, every scene 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’
Melanie Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue

‘What a novel… A joy to read’
Roddy Doyle

‘White Houses demonstrates that real people are far more fascinating than icons. But in the hands of a master storyteller, the combination is dazzling’
Lionel Shriver

‘Irresistibly readable...