In 1933, President Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt took up residence in the White House. With them went the journalist Lorena Hickok - Hick to friends - a reporter from South Dakota, whose passionate relationship with the First Lady would shape the rest of their lives. Told by the indomitable Hick, this 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. Hidden love in the White House in 1930s and 1940s America.