I have been waiting to read The Alice Network for what feels like forever. I nearly bought it despite having an ever growing TBR pile on my bookshelves that I promised myself (well, really my husband) I’d pare down before buying anything new. Either way I’m glad I held out because I actually got my hands on the audio version through the library and it was a great listen. Kate Quinn weaves real history, namely Louise de Bettignies and her network of female spies, with fiction into a […]
Women & Espionage in the World Wars
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn is an ambitious work of historical fiction that straddles two world wars and their aftermath, and that shines a light on the heroic work of female spies. Quinn uses a solid base of historical fact and real people to create her fictional heroine Eve (aka Evelyn Gardiner, aka Marguerite Le Francois), a spy for England in WWI who made shattering sacrifices and has never healed from her tragic and brutal experiences. Eve is an alcoholic recluse when, in the […]