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Absolutely loved this one! Fantastic characters and a truly compelling storyline. Adding all of Kate Quinn‘s other books to my TBR now! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I finally finished! The authors note described this as a pandemic Mish-mash and that is what it felt like. It came together for to a somewhat interesting conclusion; but definitely felt disjointed. Some stories I enjoyed, some j didn‘t, the house as a narrator just felt silly. But good enough for me to want to finish. Read for #literaryclub

This is the story of how a swampy area of MD and VA ended up as the US capital. The story seems perfect for a Cohen brothers movie with incompetency, corruption, stubbornness, and dumb luck eventually resulting in Washington DC becoming a reality. The whole process was quite the shit show, from being selected over various locales in PA (take that Columbia), to its design, to getting funding and then built, burnt to the ground and built again!

I really enjoyed this book. It was interesting the way it was set up and how we learned about each of the women in the book. The inclusion of the recipes was such a fun aspect as well. I have it a 5/5

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Here‘s a link to a cookbook to go with the book

I‘m sure everyone will want to make ARLENE'S CANDLE SALAD 🕯️ 🍍 😝 - maybe I should have posted THAT photo! 😝

https://www.katequinnauthor.com/uncategorized/the-briar-club-cookbook-recipes-fr...

Rereading for bookclub.

The lives of several women are intertwined while they live in a boarding house in Washington, D.C. in the 1950s.

Pretty good yarn. Not sure how quickly I‘d bother to pick up another though.

Have YOU read this book? It is GOOD!!

PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER - CRIME

A couple getting a divorce, a dead, pregnant nanny, a child who won‘t speak because she saw her nanny fall from the window, and a best-interest attorney who has to help the courts decide who gets full custody after the divorce are the characters we meet.

FULL REVIEW: https://tinyurl.com/yhp76fz6

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Post WWII 1950s. Quinn‘s novel opens with a scene of a dead body in a DC women‘s boarding house.How did this happen?Who committed the deadly deed?The house became a home for a found family when Grace March moved into the top floor.She initiated Thursday night shared pot-luck dinners & overtime these eclectic women became a bonded,tight-knit group.The house was a character in itself,coming alive when the women move in.