The launch of Kate Quinn’s highly anticipated novel, “The Briar Club,” will be celebrated at 7 p.m. in the Winn Room of the Coronado Public Library with a literary event on July 9.
The evening will feature Quinn in conversation with acclaimed author Jennifer Coburn, known for her work including “Cradles of the Reich.”
This event is free and open to the public. It presents a unique opportunity to hear directly from Quinn about her latest historical fiction masterpiece.
Quinn is renowned for her meticulously researched and compelling historical fiction novels, including “The Alice Network” and “The Huntress,” both New York Times bestsellers.
Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Limited preferred seating is offered with the purchase of “The Briar Club” through “Adventures by the Book.” For more details visit cplevents.org.
About ‘The Briar Club’
“The Briar Club,” is a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse during the McCarthy era.
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.
Information courtesy of the Coronado Public Library.
