The Briar Club : a novel / Kate Quinn.
"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?"-- Dust jacket flap.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780063244740
- ISBN: 0063244748
- ISBN: 9780063357877
- ISBN: 9780063244757
- ISBN: 0063357879
- Physical Description: 423 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024]
- Copyright: ©2024
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Includes recipes.Publisher, dates, and paging may vary.
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- Subject:
- Female friendship > Fiction.
Women > Fiction.
Secrecy > Fiction.
Boardinghouses > Fiction.
Anti-communist movements > Fiction.
Nineteen fifties > Fiction.
Attics > Fiction.
Women's friendships.
Women.
Womyn.
Secrecy.
Washington (D.C.) > Fiction. - Genre:
- Historical fiction.
Political fiction.
Novels.
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- 62 of 141 copies available at NC Cardinal.
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- 21 current holds with 141 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Jacksonville Main Library | FIC QUINN (Text) | 36015001911466 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Richlands Branch Library | FIC QUINN (Text) | 36015001911474 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Swansboro Branch Library | FIC QUINN (Text) | 36015001911482 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 08/06/2026 |
| Albert Carlton - Cashiers Community Library | F QUINN (Text) | 39493110117407 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Alexander Main Library | F Quinn (Text) | 34269001439059 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Andrews Public Library | F QUI (Text) | 80605003723417 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Angier Public Library | F Qui (Text) | 33632002273184 | Adult Fiction | In transit | - |
| Ashe County Public Library | F QUI (Text) | 50503300489699 | Adult Fiction | In transit | - |
| Avery County Morrison Public Library | FIC QUI (Text) | 31111003035936 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 08/24/2026 |
| Barco Library | F QUI (Text) | 39488201025022 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 08/12/2026 |
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Summary:
"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?"--
