She is American and comes from a wealthy family that has been hit by the tragedy of war. Drunk, aggressive, rude …are not appealing character’s trait.īut the more I learned about the fascinating and dangerous past of Eve, the more I admired that woman with a steely backbone and cold blood when confronted with danger!Ĭharlie is barely eighteen and a math genius. It took me some time to fall into the story for as much as I instantly liked Charlotte St Claire known as Charlie, Eve did not stir any compassion in the beginning.
The Alice Network is brilliantly plotted around two periods in war time: the first World War when we follow Eve Gardiner’s memories and the aftermath of WWII with Charlie’s quest to find her beloved cousin, Rose who disappeared under the Nazi regime. “What did it matter if something frightened you if it had to be done?” 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. 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 the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St.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.
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