Historical Fiction · Free kit
The Briar Club
Washington, D.C., 1950. At Briarwood House, a tired all-female boardinghouse in Foggy Bottom, the boarders pass in the hall and keep their secrets. Then widow Grace March takes the attic room nobody wants, parks sun tea on the windowsill, and starts a Thursday supper club whose only cover charge is a can of food. An English war bride, a National Archives secretary, a sidelined baseball star, a Capitol Hill clerk, a Hungarian artist in exile, and a HUAC secretary fluent in Red Scare certainty become an unlikely family — while Grace hides the most dangerous secret in the house. When violence arrives at Thanksgiving, the Briar Club has to decide who the true enemy is, and what friendship is willing to cover.
“Just like people, houses go to sleep if bored.”
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The Briar Club Printables
Get the full printable pack on Etsy, or print individual pages from Bingo, Discussion Questions, and Hosting.
Briar vine and mason-jar sticker sheet
Die-cut stickers inspired by a painted vine, a sun-tea jar, a red beret, a baseball, and a Foggy Bottom picket fence — for journals or meeting favors.
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Favorite quote cards
Blank cards for the line that stayed: the bored-house sentence, Grace on dinner-party villains, or whatever your group underlined in a recipe headnote.
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Character superlatives ballot
Vote Grace vs. Arlene vs. Bea vs. Pete in categories that will start arguments, then tally out loud.
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Book club invite
Printable invite with the kit's hook, the canned-good admission joke, and meeting details.
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Review sheet
Likes/dislikes for the ensemble, the house narrator, the mystery frame, the ending, and comfort-to-paranoia ratio.
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