Join us on Friday, July 18th at 12:00 pm Noon at The Garment Factory for a luncheon to celebrate the paperback release of The Briar Club with New York Times bestselling author Kate Quinn!

A ticket includes entry to the event and a signed paperback copy of The Briar Club.

If you will not be attending the event, please use this link to preorder your copy for pick-up or shipping after the event.

Tickets include The Briar Club in paperback, admission to the event, and a three-course meal. A ticket is required to attend the event.

We are pleased to provide accessibility accommodations for this event upon request. To arrange accommodations, including accommodations related to a food allergy, or request additional information about accommodations for this event please email hello@wildgeesebookshop.com

Please note: all food allergy accommodations need to be submitted at least one week before the event to allow staff to prepare alternate meals.

Publisher Guidelines:

A signing/photo line will be held after the event. Kate will personalize your copy of The Briar Club. Attendees may take a photo with the author either individually or in a group.

Additional copies of Kate's books will be available for purchase at the event.

Event Policies:

Outside food or drink is not permitted at this venue.
Photo/Signing line positions are assigned first come first served upon arrival of person and ticket scanned.
A ticket is required for every person attending this event above the age of 2. This event does not allow at-the-door sales and individuals without a ticket can not be allowed entry.
We love it when people share memories from their night but recording long-form video of the author's talk is not allowed at this event. Long-form video is considered to be any recorded video reaching a combined total of more than 3 minutes in length.
By attending this event you are giving consent to be photographed or recorded by Wild Geese Bookshop.
Can't make it to the event? Please email hello@wildgeesebookshop.com to arrange for shipping or pick up of your book.
Books not picked up after 60 days are forfeited and can not be refunded.

About the book:

The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns with a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse during the McCarthy era.

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.

About the author:

Kate Quinn is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of historical fiction. A native of Southern California, she attended Boston University, where she earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in classical voice. A lifelong history buff, she has written four novels in the Empress of Rome Saga and two books set in the Italian Renaissance before turning to the 20th century with The Alice Network, The Huntress, The Rose Code, The Diamond Eye, and The Briar Club. All have been translated into multiple languages. She and her husband now live in California with three black rescue dogs.

Kate Quinn at The Garment Factory

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General Admission with Lunch and Book ticket

Donations

Franklin Heritage Fund (optional)