The Briar Club
Characters in The Briar Club
8 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Grace March
The mysterious widow who takes the attic room at Briarwood House and draws the other tenants into a weekly supper club; conceals a dangerous secret from her past.
Supporting characters
Nora (The Briar Club)
A policeman's daughter and Briarwood House resident who works at the National Archives and becomes entangled with a gangster.
Beatrice (The Briar Club)
A former player in the women's professional baseball league, forced to give up her athletic career when the league folded after WWII.
Fliss (The Briar Club)
An English war bride and Briarwood House resident whose poised facade of perfect wife and mother hides deep inner wounds.
Arlene
A Briarwood House resident and secretary to the House Un-American Activities Committee, fervently caught up in McCarthy's Red Scare.
Claire (The Briar Club)
A Briarwood House resident saving toward a home of her own.
Reka
An elderly Hungarian refugee living at Briarwood House.