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Washington, D.C., 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, she draws her oddball col...

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Main Author: Quinn, Kate (Author)
Other Authors: Maarleveld, Saskia (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: [New York] : HarperCollins, [2024]
Edition:Unabridged.
Subjects:
Female friendship > Fiction.
Women > Fiction.
Secrecy > Fiction.
Boardinghouses > Washington (D.C.) > Fiction.
Anti-communist movements > Fiction.
Nineteen fifties > Fiction.
Attics > Fiction.
Political fiction.
Historical fiction.
Audiobooks.
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Summary:Washington, D.C., 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, 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; police officer's daughter Nora, who is entangled with a shadowy gangster; frustrated baseball star Bea, whose career has ended 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 apart the house, the Briar Club women must decide once and for all: Who is the true enemy in their midst?
Item Description:Compact discs.
Physical Description:12 audio discs (15 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:9798874625405
9798874625399
Author Notes:Kate Quinn was born and raised in southern California. She attended Boston University, where she earned a Bachelor¿s and later a Master¿s degree in Classical Voice. She has always been a lifelong history buff. She put that love of history to work when she wrote four novels in the Empress of Rome Saga, and two books in the Italian Renaissance. She then moved on to the 20th century with "The Alice Network".

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