Except Charlie still believes that there is hope for the future while Eve does not. Both are on similar quests to find answers to the lives they left behind. From the minute I picked this book up until the last of its nearly 500 pages, I was blown away.Ĭharlie and Eve are two quite different women however, their differences become two sides of the same coin. But above all it is about conquering the darkness both outside and inside of ourselves, about friendship and family, love and life-about what is worth fighting for. At times it is also dark and gritty and emotionally draining.
My Take: The Alice Network is in one word, phenomenal. Until a young American barges in uttering a name Eve hasn’t heard in decades, and launches them both on a mission to find the truth…no matter where it leads. Thirty years later, haunted by the betrayal that ultimately tore apart the Alice Network, Eve spends her days drunk and secluded in her crumbling London house. Sent into enemy-occupied France, she’s trained by the mesmerizing Lili, the “Queen of Spies”, who manages a vast network of secret agents right under the enemy’s nose. A year into the Great War, Eve Gardiner burns to join the fight against the Germans and unexpectedly gets her chance when she’s recruited to work as a spy. So when Charlie’s parents banish her to Europe to have her “little problem” taken care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London, determined to find out what happened to the cousin she loves like a sister.ġ915.
She’s also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. Historical Fiction – 1917 (World War I) and 1947 (Post-World War II) England and Franceįrom the Author: In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women-a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947-are brought together in a mesmerizing story of courage and redemption.ġ947. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St.
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