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Daisy: A Novel
When Jay Gatsby re-enters Daisy Buchanan’s orbit in the 1920s, she realizes that not waiting for her lover to return from the war was the biggest mistake of her life. She begins a passionate affair with Gatsby, while plotting to leave her marriage and keep her daughter. Her plans involve numerous subterfuges—pretending to be mad being the riskiest—as she amasses funds and works out strategies. As the story unfolds, readers learn what Gatsby wrote in his letter to Daisy that almost had her aborting her wedding to Tom, and who is really driving the car that killed Tom’s mistress, Myrtle Wilson. Daisy grows in strength and confidence during a tumultuous summer until she understands that maybe she needs to escape both gilded cages—the one constructed for her by her husband and the one she’s about to fly into belonging to Gatsby.
More from the BookLife Prize “This book’s modernization applies the female agenda in today’s society to the social construct of the 1920s. It provides an inspirational heroine that escapes gender inferiority. In Fitzgerald’s novel, Daisy acts as an ornament to the male species, yet in this book, the author gives her agency.”
More from the BookLife Prize “This book’s modernization applies the female agenda in today’s society to the social construct of the 1920s. It provides an inspirational heroine that escapes gender inferiority. In Fitzgerald’s novel, Daisy acts as an ornament to the male species, yet in this book, the author gives her agency.”
184 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 3, 2025
About the author
Libby Sternberg
29 books11 followersLibby Sternberg is an Edgar finalist, a Launchpad Prose Top 50 finalist, and a BookLife quarter-finalist twice.
She writes historical fiction, women’s fiction, and more under the names Libby Sternberg and Libby Malin, and one of her romantic comedies was bought for film.
She has written two retellings of classic stories:"Daisy" ("The Great Gatsby") and "Sloane Hall" ("Jane Eyre").
"Sloane Hall" was one of only 14 books highlighted in the Huffington Post on the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Bronte's birth.
"Daisy" has been hailed by Publishers Weekly's BookLife contest as "A delightful portrayal of a female character claiming the story as her own, repossessing her own voice.”
Born in Baltimore, she now lives in Lancaster, PA with her husband Matthew. She has three grown children.
She writes historical fiction, women’s fiction, and more under the names Libby Sternberg and Libby Malin, and one of her romantic comedies was bought for film.
She has written two retellings of classic stories:"Daisy" ("The Great Gatsby") and "Sloane Hall" ("Jane Eyre").
"Sloane Hall" was one of only 14 books highlighted in the Huffington Post on the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Bronte's birth.
"Daisy" has been hailed by Publishers Weekly's BookLife contest as "A delightful portrayal of a female character claiming the story as her own, repossessing her own voice.”
Born in Baltimore, she now lives in Lancaster, PA with her husband Matthew. She has three grown children.
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