“There are two kinds of flowers when it comes to women,” Eve said. Eve’s story is incredibly horrific and tragic but she is a survivor and as an older woman nurses a rage which is something to behold. Eve is an English woman, recruited because she is fluent in French and German, she becomes part of the Alice Network run by Lilli, these young women put their lives in danger every day. Told with two voices, one of whom is Eve, a waitress in a restaurant in WWI rural France, a place where the Nazi’s come to dine and talk about their plans over delicious meals, wine and cognac. Our two main characters are Evelyn, a former member of the Alice Network and now an embittered hermit, and Charlie St Clair, a disgraced and pregnant American college student. The Alice Network by Kate Quinn is written around the historical spy ring run by ‘Alice DuBois’, the Queen of Spies, during World War I. 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.īook Review: The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
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, code name Alice, 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 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.ġ947.
Narrator: Alternating Point of View, The first part is told in the third person, while the second is told in the first personīook Summary: The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
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