From jacket flap: "Three people, Daisy Kenyon, Dan O'Mara, and Peter Lapham, are trying to find happiness and a way of life in the confused world of this decade. Daisy is thirty-two, attractive, and single. Dan, her lover, is a Fordham Irishman, who has risen to the top of his profession but who finds little satisfaction in his private life. Peter Lapham edits a magazine for which Daisy has done illustrations and, meeting her in his work, falls violently in love. Their story is told against a political and economic background where people and events that have become familiar pass in review while Daisy struggles to rationalize the problems brought about by her attachment to the two men."