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Review: The Alice Network

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This plot is set shortly after the Second World War. A young American lady travels to England with her mother to deal with an unplanned pregnancy. Charlotte St. Clair has another agenda than the one planned by her parents. She is determined to find out what happened to her cousin Rose who disappeared four years earlier and presumed dead. Charlotte recruits the help of Evelyn Gardner and her chauffeur, Finn Kilgore. Eve was a spy who was part of The Alice Network during WWI and has knowledge of the whereabouts of Rose. The Alice Network is a true war fact and took its name from Alice Dubois (a.k.a. Louise de Bettignies), a French female spy who spied on the Germans for the British. Some information about her can be found at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis....

The story jumps back and forth between Charlotte trying to find her cousin and Eve’s past as a spy. The two timelines collide in the last few chapters.

Beautifully written and thought-provoking, this historical novel keeps its reader intrigued and enthralled to the end.

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