The Briar Club - Kate Quinn - Hardcover

Description: “Quinn evocatively balances the outward cheerfulness of the 1950s with historical observations exploring racism, misogyny, homophobia and political persecution in this sharply drawn, gripping novel.” - People MagazineThe New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns with a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse during the McCarthy era.Washington, DC, 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 room, 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; policeman’s daughter Nora, who finds herself entangled with a shadowy gangster; frustrated baseball star Beatrice, whose career has come to an end 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 the house apart, 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.A beautiful, foil cover, first edition.

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Publication Name: The Briar Club

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Title: The Briar Club

Narrative Type: Fiction

Original Language: English

Intended Audience: Adults

Inscribed: No

Vintage: No

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Type: Novel

EAN: 9780063244740

ISBN: 9780063244740

Release Year: 2024

Era: 2020s

ISBN-10: 0063244748

Personalized: No

Country/Region of Manufacture: US

Release Date: 07/09/2024

Book Title: Briar Club : a Novel

Number of Pages: 432 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: HarperCollins

Publication Year: 2024

Topic: Mystery & Detective / Historical, Contemporary Women, Thrillers / Espionage, Thrillers / Historical, Romance / Suspense

Item Height: 1.2 in

Genre: Fiction

Item Weight: 18.9 Oz

Item Length: 9 in

Author: Kate Quinn

Item Width: 6 in

Format: Hardcover