An Afternoon with Kate Quinn at Greenhill Vineyards: Celebrating The Briar Club

Join us in the heart of Virginia wine country for a captivating afternoon at Greenhill Vineyards as we celebrate the paperback launch of The Briar Club, the latest spellbinding novel from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Kate Quinn.

Nestled just minutes outside of historic Middleburg, Greenhill Vineyards offers the perfect setting to toast Quinn’s boldest departure yet—an unforgettable tale set in 1950s Washington, D.C., where a mysterious stranger and a Thursday night supper club unravel secrets, challenge norms, and redefine sisterhood in a Cold War-era boarding house.

Hosted by Mary Beth Morell, owner of Middleburg Books, the event will feature a live Q+A with Kate Quinn, offering behind-the-scenes insights into the inspiration and themes of The Briar Club, her move away from wartime fiction, and the power of women’s stories through history.

After the conversation, guests will have the opportunity to meet the author during a book signing.

Sip award-winning 100% Virginia wines from one of Loudoun County’s most celebrated boutique wineries while enjoying panoramic views of hunt country’s rolling vineyards.

Whether you're a longtime fan or new to Kate Quinn’s writing, this is an afternoon not to be missed—where fine wine, meaningful storytelling, and vibrant conversation come together under the summer sky.

*Admission includes paperback copy of THE BRIAR CLUB.

**Greenhill Vineyards and Winery is a 21+ establishment. 

About THE BRIAR CLUB

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.