Briar - XO Club, The. By Kate Quinn, 1 Each
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Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, an all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nations 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; policemans daughter Nora, who finds herself paired with a shady gangster; frustrated baseball star Beatrice, whose career has come to an end; and poisonous, gung-ho Arlene, who has thrown herself into McCarthys Red Scare.Graces 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 a thrilling novel of secrets and loyalty put to the test.Product Number: 09780063357877
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Sales price valid from 2024-06-20 until 2024-11-27
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Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, an all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nations 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; policemans daughter Nora, who finds herself paired with a shady gangster; frustrated baseball star Beatrice, whose career has come to an end; and poisonous, gung-ho Arlene, who has thrown herself into McCarthys Red Scare.Graces 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 a thrilling novel of secrets and loyalty put to the test.Product Number: 09780063357877
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