đBook Chat November: The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
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đBook Chat November: The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
Please come prepared to discuss the book. You are welcome to come if you havenât read or finished the book but beware of SPOILERS because we wonât hold back đ.
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Meet the Author:
https://www.katequinnauthor.com/
Goodreads Synopsis:
A haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, D.C. boardinghouse during the McCarthy era.
Washington, D.C., 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nationâs capital, where secrets hide behind white picket fences. But when the lovely, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic, she draws her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship: poised English beauty Fliss whose facade of perfect wife and mother covers gaping inner wounds; police officerâs daughter Nora, who is entangled with a shadowy gangster; frustrated baseball star Bea, whose career has ended along with the womenâs baseball league of WWII; and poisonous, gung-ho Arlene, who has thrown herself into McCarthyâs Red Scare.
Graceâs weekly attic-room dinner parties and window-brewed sun tea become a healing balm on all their lives, but she hides a terrible secret of her own. When a shocking act of violence tears apart the house, the Briar Club women must decide once and for all: Who is the true enemy in their midst?
Capturing the paranoia of the McCarthy era and evoking the changing roles for women in postwar America, The Briar Club is an intimate and thrilling novel of secrets and loyalty put to the test.
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