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About the Book:
“Washington, DC, 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 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; 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 postwar America, The Briar Club is an intimate and thrilling novel of secrets and loyalty put to the test.”(Amazon.com)
My Thoughts:
When I had heard this was the pandemic book for Kate. I had mixed feelings. I have read some pandemic books and loved them. Unfortunately, this book is not one that I loved. The book follows the different women in the house, but there is no big climax. I struggled to stay interested in the characters. I definitely wanted Grace to succeed and for Pete to be able to go to school. I felt that the end was satisfying to me with learning about the Pillsbury Bake off. The book is well written, but the subject matter wasn’t as interesting to me.
Rating:
3.75/5
Buy Links:
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