The Alice Network

Two women are brought together in a captivating tale of bravery and redemption in the captivating new historical novel by nationally bestselling author Kate Quinn. One woman was a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I, and the other was an unconventional American socialite looking for her cousin in 1947.

1947: American college student Charlie St. Clair, unmarried, pregnant, and about to be kicked out of her very respectable family, in the tumultuous wake of World War II. In addition, she harbours a fervent hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who vanished during the war in Nazi-occupied France, could still be alive. Desperate to learn what happened to the cousin she loves like a sister, Charlie escapes her parents' banishment from the country and travels to London when they send her to Europe to have her "little problem" attended to.

1914. Eve Gardiner, a year into the Great War, is desperate to combat the Germans and is given an unexpected opportunity when she is chosen to be a spy. Sent inside enemy-occupied France, she receives training from the captivating Lili, also known as "queen of spies," code name Alice, who runs a massive network of covert operatives just under the enemy's nose.

Thirty years later, Eve lives alone and intoxicated in her dilapidated London home, horrified by the treachery that finally caused the Alice Network to fall apart. Until a young American suddenly interrupts, introducing himself and calling Eve by a name she hasn't heard in decades, setting off a quest to uncover the truth, wherever it may lead.