Charlie flees to Europe in a desperate bid to find her lost cousin, Rose. The first is set in post World War II and follows the trials of Charlie St Clair, an American college student who finds herself pregnant and unmarried. The Alice Network is a moving story, filled with tense moments of espionage, intrigue and courage. The Alice Network is a compelling tale of duty, sacrifice, love, loyalty and bravery.

The Alice Network was a real life underground spy operative group, that served in occupied France in World War I. These fearless female resistance fighters are given the recognition they deserve through Kate Quinn’s fiction blended with fact novel. US based historical fiction author Kate Quinn pays homage to the brave female spies that operated during the Great War in her 2017 published novel, The Alice Network. 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. 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. This weekly book review post is a way to share some old favourites, books that were published over a year ago and most importantly those books that have been languishing on the to be read pile for far too long!

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