The book will be The Briar Club by Kate Quinn. We will meet in the food court of the Charlotte Premium Outlets- it’s generally dead at 10:30 on a Saturday so we will likely be one of the only ones there!
If you have ideas for next month’s book, bring a recommendation and a short description of the book! At the end of the meeting we can all pitch our book ideas and then vote for the favorite.
I (Katie) will not be hosting next month as I will have a newborn, so Liisa will be leading this meeting!
This months book description:
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 nation’s 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 officer’s daughter Nora, who is entangled with a shadowy gangster; frustrated baseball star Bea, whose career has ended along with the women’s baseball league of WWII; and poisonous, gung-ho Arlene, who has thrown herself into McCarthy’s Red Scare.
Grace’s 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?
