Once again, I am utterly amazed that I’d never heard of these brave, ambitious women who risked their lives daily, in hopes of defeating the Germans. The Alice Network is a wonderful work of historical fiction about the ring of female spies during WW1. 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.

They hook up together with different agendas and head for the French towns of Lille, Limoge and Grasse.The Alice Network by Kate Quinn– 528 pagesĪRC courtesy of author and Edelweiss Book Blurb:ġ947. Eve might possess a clue to Rose’s whereabouts, but Eve is a raging, hard-drinking, foul-mouthed WWI broken-down espionage agent secluded in London.

In 1947 a young girl, Charlie, is looking for her beloved cousin Rose, lost somewhere in France. “The Germans were equally impressed (if incensed) by the uncanny accuracy of the underground information flow, so efficient that new artillery placements were often bombed within days of being set up.”

Eve sheds light on all the sacrifices female operatives made in the name of patriotism during the Great War and how crucial they were to the war effort. She is the bridge between the two timelines. Eve’s part in the story takes place during WWI and then again in 1947. Liberties were taken with a fictional character, based on a tiny scrap of historical truth, by the name of Eve Gardiner who worked with Lili. 'Bettignies had an uncanny ability to bluff her way past checkpoints, whether by juggling packages until an exasperated sentry waved her through, or by utilizing local children in a game of tag to smuggle her a pass.”

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