Intrigue, female friendship, a 1950s boarding house and actual recipes all went into bestselling author of The Rose Code Kate Quinn’s post-pandemic book. “It really did come out of ... how much I was missing the people in my life I had not been able to gather around a dinner table with for what felt like eons. I was thinking about a book about community, women lifting each other up, food, wine, secrets and all the things that happen when you push these things together at a really good dinner party.”