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Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boarding house 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 neighbours 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 post-war America, The Briar Club is an intimate and thrilling novel of secrets and loyalty put to the test.
About the author
Kate Quinn is the
New York Times and
USA Todaybestselling author of historical fiction. A native of southern California, she attended Boston University where she earned a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Classical Voice. She has written five novels in the Empress of Rome saga, and two books set in the Italian Renaissance, before turning to the 20th century with
The Alice Network,
The Rose Code and
The Diamond Eye. All have been translated into multiple languages. Kate and her husband now live in Maryland with three rescue dogs.
