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008 240418t20242024nyu e 000 1 eng
010 _a2024013191
020 _a9780063244740
035 _a(OCoLC)1388317567
_z(OCoLC)1441243975
040 _cAJM
042 _apcc
043 _an-us-dc
100 1 _aQuinn, Kate,
_eauthor.
_910401
245 1 4 _aThe Briar Club :
_ba novel /
_cKate Quinn.
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bWilliam Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
_c[2024]
264 4 _c©2024
300 _a423 pages ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
340 _2rdatb
340 _2rdatb
500 _aIncludes recipes.
520 _a"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.
520 _a"The 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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aFemale friendship
_vFiction.
_959
650 0 _aWomen
_vFiction.
_910408
650 0 _aSecrecy
_vFiction.
_95925
650 0 _aBoardinghouses
_zWashington (D.C.)
_vFiction.
_918176
650 0 _aAnti-communist movements
_vFiction.
_918177
650 0 _aNineteen fifties
_vFiction.
_917518
650 0 _aAttics
_vFiction.
_918178
651 0 _aWashington (D.C.)
_vFiction.
_96017
655 7 _aPolitical fiction.
_2lcgft
_9987
655 7 _aHistorical fiction.
_2lcgft
_9129
655 7 _aNovels.
_2lcgft
_950
907 _a.b189058778
942 _2ddc
_cBOOK
999 _c30024
_d30024