Each month the Poquoson Woman's Club hosts a Book Club on the first Monday of the month at 630P. Join us for a fun review of this month's selection!
PWC membership is NOT required to participate. Send a PM if you have any questions. :) We look forward to seeing you!
Dec Book: The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
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.
2026 PREVIEW:
January The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell Robert Dugoni
February Before We Were Yours Lisa Wingate
March Ladies of the Lake Cathy Gohlke
April The Book Club For Troublesome Women Marie Bostwick
May The Sideways Life of Denny Voss Holly Kennedy
June She Didn’t See It Coming Shari Lapena
July The Mad Wife Meagan Church
August Local Woman Missing Mary Kubica
September The Happiest Man on Earth Eddie Jaku
October The Wedding People Alison Espach
November The Academy Elin Hilderbrand
December All Good People Here Ashley Flowers
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