Briar Club Intl/E

This is the first Kate Quinn novel I have read and it won't be the last. Kate Quinn brings together a disparate group of woman of different ages and stages. All of the characters live in a tacky boarding house set in 1950 in Washington, DC. She brings great depth to all of her characters, I would become angry at the behaviour of the landlady, frightened for the vulnerable English mother whose husband was away in the Korean war, impressed by the strength of the main character,Grace, who brings them all together for a weekly dinner. So laughter and tears.… show more.