Book Club.
Join Us.
Calvary's book club is a women's group that strengthens relationships within the group as we work together in supporting the activities of the church. We also participate in opportunities to serve the church and our church members. It is a wonderful fellowship opportunity!
Book selections and meeting dates are posted in church member publications. Contact the church office should you need more information.
The Book Club will meet at Carol’s home at 6:00 pm. We will begin with a light meal followed by a discussion of the book The Briar Club by Kate Quinn. Please RSVP to Carol with the link below.
Goodreads Choice Award: A haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, D.C. boardinghouse during the McCarthy era.
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?
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.
