Jencey's Writer's Corner

  Kate Quinn is one of my favorite authors!  I recently had the opportunity to read The Briar Club.  This book is her pandemic book, meaning that there wasn’t much traveling.  This story takes us back to the early 1950s and the McCarthy era.  The story begins when Grace takes a room at the Briarwood house.  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 ...