Washington\, DC\, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House\, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghou se in the heart of the nation&rsquo\;s capital where secrets hide behind w hite picket fences. But when the lovely\, mysterious widow Grace March mov es into the attic room\, she draws her oddball collection of neighbors int o unlikely friendship: poised English beauty Fliss\, whose facade of perfe ct wife and mother covers gaping inner wounds\; policeman&rsquo\;s daughte r Nora\, who finds herself entangled with a shadowy gangster\; frustrated baseball star Beatrice\, whose career has come to an end along with the wo men&rsquo\;s baseball league of WWII\; and poisonous\, gung-ho Arlene\, wh o has thrown herself into McCarthy&rsquo\;s Red Scare.
\nGrace&rsquo \;s weekly attic-room dinner parties and window-brewed sun tea become a he aling 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 w omen must decide once and for all: who is the true enemy in their midst?\n
Capturing the paranoia of the McCarthy era and evoking the changing roles for women in postwar America\, \;The Briar Club \;is an int imate and thrilling novel of secrets and loyalty put to the test.
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