# Daisy Palmer — Sinister Street character guide

> Daisy Palmer in Sinister Street by Compton Mackenzie.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Palmer, May

**First appearance:** 0038-iv-cheyne-walk

## Snapshot

A young woman drawn into Michael's Oxford years, part of the private life he keeps hidden from his family's drawing-room chatter.

## Who they are

Daisy belongs to the world Michael will not name when Stella and Alan press him about his vanished fortnight. Her presence shadows the secret he carries back to Cheyne Walk, a confidence he resents being asked to recite like a dream. She matters as the embodiment of an experience Michael is not yet ready to fold into the story his family tells about him.

## Relationships

### [Michael Fane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sinister_street_se/characters/michael_fane)

_romantic_

Daisy is a working-class girl with whom Michael has a brief, tender romantic affair, highlighting class differences.

### [Michael Fane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sinister_street_se/characters/michael_fane)

_romantic_

Daisy is a working-class girl with whom Michael has a brief, tender romantic affair, highlighting class differences.

### [Michael Fane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sinister_street_se/characters/michael_fane)

_romantic_

Daisy is a working-class girl with whom Michael has a brief, tender romantic affair, highlighting class differences.

## In the story

### [V: The Innermost Circle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sinister_street_se/chapters/v-the-innermost-circle)

Michael briefly considers going to the Orange to talk to Daisy, but does not act on it.

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